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Lädt ... Archaeologies of the Future (Poetics of Social Forms) (Original 2005; 2005. Auflage)von Fredric Jameson
Werk-InformationenArchaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions von Fredric Jameson (2005)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Super theoretical and dense! But if you can forgive the overuse of German phrases with no English equivalent this serves as a really good primer to some very exciting sci-fi! I can't wait to read (or watch the movie verison of) Solaris! ( ) Fredric Jameson is someone who is oft-cited in science fiction criticism, and as someone who is interested in the genre as a vehicle for imagining future utopias, I felt his work would be relevant to my growing interest in the way that science fiction depicts future revolutions. Unfortunately (and this isn't necessarily a slight against the book), it turned out to be not particularly useful-- I only have a scant 2.5 pages of notes on its 431 pages, and most of them are just me rewriting the chapter titles. Not that it was useless, though; there are a lot of concepts here about utopia that will be worth revisiting for me: that the utopia actually synthesizes the pleasure principle of fantasy with the reality principle of sf (74), that it's often impossible to imagine that the changes we seek in society could actually happen* (23, 86, 97, 118), that utopian change is often compressed into a single apocalypse because it's difficult for narrative to deal with generational time (187), that history does not end but we demand ending of it anyway (283), and that all of this thinking is not necessarily fanciful-- utopian fiction wants us to contemplate "real" politics just as much as sf wants us to contemplate "real" science (410). So maybe more useful than I gave him credit for-- I am pretty sure I could build a whole essay out of any one of those ideas, and I look forward to coming back to Jameson and working with his concepts in the future. * After all, it was Jameson who kind of once remarked that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism." Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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