Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. 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. 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?Īrchaeologies 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. Terry Eagleton, London Review of BooksĪrchaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson’s project on the Poetics of Social Forms. The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science FictionsĬertainly among the most stunning studies of utopia and science fiction ever produced… a vast treasure trove of a book. “ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE”: FREDRIC JAMESON BOOK Augat 10:00 pm | Posted in Books, Globalization, History, Literary, Philosophy, Research, Science & Technology | Leave a comment
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