| Description |
xvi, 431 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The desire called utopia -- Introduction : utopia now -- 1. Varieties of the utopian -- 2. The utopian enclave -- 3. Morus : the generic window -- 4. Utopian science versus utopian ideology -- 5. The great schism -- 6. How to fulfill a wish -- 7. The barrier of time -- 8. The unknowability thesis -- 9. The alien body -- 10. Utopia and its antinomies -- 11. Synthesis, irony, neutralization and the moment of truth -- 12. Journey into fear -- 13. The future as disruption -- Pt. 2. As far as thought can reach -- 1. Fourier, or, ontology and utopia -- 2. Generic discontinuities in SF : Brian Aldiss' Starship -- 3. World reduction in Le Guin -- 4. Progress versus utopia, or, can we imagine the future? -- 5. Science fiction as a spatial genre; Vonda McIntyre's The exile waiting -- 6. The space of science fiction : narrative in Van Vogt -- 7. Longevity as class struggle -- 8. Philip K. Dick, in memoriam -- 9. After Armageddon : character systems in Dr. Bloodmoney |
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10. History and salvation in Philip K. Dick -- 11. Fear and loathing in globalization -- 12. "If I can find one good city, I will spare the man" : realism and utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Future, The, in literature.
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Utopias in literature.
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| LC no. |
2005025618 |
| ISBN |
1844670333 (alk. paper) |
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