Archaeologies of the future
Subtitle: the desire called utopia and other science fictions
By: Fredric Jameson.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781844670338
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Utopias in literature; Future in literature
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Varieties of the utopian; title: The utopian enclave; title: Morus: the generic window; title: Utopian science versus utopian ideology; title: The great schism; title: How to fulfill a wish; title: The barrier of time; title: The unknowability thesis; title: The alien body; title: Utopia and its antinomies; title: Synthesis, irony, neutralization and the moment of truth; title: Journey into fear; title: The future as disruption; title: Fourier, or, Ontology and utopia; title: Generic discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship; title: World reduction in Le Guin; title: Progress versus utopia, or, Can we imagine the future?; title: Science fiction as a spatial genre: Vonda McIntyre's The exile waiting; title: The space of science fiction: narrative in Van Vogt; title: Longevity as class struggle; title: Philip K. Dick, in memoriam; title: After armageddon: character systems in Dr. Bloodmoney; title: History and salvation in Philip K. Dick; title: Fear and loathing in globalization; title: "If I can find one good city, I will spare the man": realism and utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.