He clearly traces the link between the utopian members of the Western Canon and the rise of science fiction's paraliterature, and the societal needs for these works and their roots in the human collective conscienceness. Jameson also remarks on the differences between hard science fiction and fantasy. With a focus on utopianism and dystopia the subjects covered are sex and society, aliens and psychoanalyst, and the motifs and mechanics of this writing field.
Authors reviewed range from Dick to Robinson, Brunner to Le Guin. Its division into books I and II enables regular science fiction readers to access straight forward reviews in Book II.Įxpect to learn from this book and don't expect him to enshrine SF into the Western Canon but rather to provide you with an understanding of the zeitgeist of the history of the genre and ourselves. You will need to bring your knowledge of the Western Canon and contemporary philosophy with you in order to fully appreciate this text. 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.Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson's project on the Poetics of Social Forms.A non-apologist review of the science fiction genre through the eyes of America's leading Postmodernist thinker. 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? 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.
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