Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Jameson, Fredric

ISBN 10: 1844670333 / ISBN 13: 9781844670338

Published by Verso, 431pp, London, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
• Publisher: Verso, 431pp, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844670333
• ISBN 13: 9781844670338
• Binding: Binding is Hard Cover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEW JACKET

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Synopsis

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.Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson's project on the Poetics of Social Forms.

About the Author

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.