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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4172769 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4172769 N2 - **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. 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. SN - 1844670333 TI - Archaeologies of the Future (Poetics of Social Forms) PB - Verso KW - future KW - sts AU - Jameson, Fredric PY - 2005/10/17/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1844670333 ER -