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.
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..
He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize.
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.
About the Author: Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University.
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.
Dick, Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. and a study of the works of Philip K. alien life and alien worlds ...
The relationship between Utopia and Science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness ...
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
