Through a devastating criticism of revered anthropologists (Castaneda, De Castro, etc.) whose approach to their profession was that of authors of science-fiction, Pierre Déléage presents an essential study of the source of theoretical imagination and the complex links between science and fiction.
By exposing the blurring of levels of reality, in which an author like Philip K. Dick excels to make his work resonate with the theoretical fantasizing of this informal school of thought, Pierre Déléage undertakes an in-depth study of speculative subjectivity and attempts to connect the always conflictual but always productive relationships between science and fiction differently.
Pierre Déléage is an anthropologist and a research fellow in the social anthropology laboratory at the CNRS. He has published Inventer l’écriture (Inventing writing) (Les Belles Lettres, 2013), Lettres mortes (Dead letters) (Fayard, 2017) and La Folie arctique (Arctic madness) (Zones sensibles, 2017).