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Archaeologies of the Future

The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Fredric Jameson
Barcode 9781844675388
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Release Date: 17/04/2007

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Sub-Genre: Literary Criticism
Label: Verso Books
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books

The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. This book also explores the relationship between utopia and science fiction through the representations of otherness and a study of the works of Philip Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson and others.
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness . alien life and alien worlds . and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson's essential essays, including "The Desire Called Utopia," conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.