Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 177
... politics of the concept . In this lecture , published in New Left Review ( January / February 2004 : 35-54 ) , Jameson makes the claim that " utopia emerges at the moment of the suspension of the political " ( 43 ) . The lecture seeks ...
... politics of the concept . In this lecture , published in New Left Review ( January / February 2004 : 35-54 ) , Jameson makes the claim that " utopia emerges at the moment of the suspension of the political " ( 43 ) . The lecture seeks ...
Page 185
... political space on the blank slate of Mars . Your novels are unusually alert to the difficulties of transforming potentialities into actualities ( Mars is no utopia , after all ) without engaging in cynicism or dystopian imaginings ...
... political space on the blank slate of Mars . Your novels are unusually alert to the difficulties of transforming potentialities into actualities ( Mars is no utopia , after all ) without engaging in cynicism or dystopian imaginings ...
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... political vision is idiosyncratic , challenging , and entertaining . At the same time , at the level of local narrative , MacLeod's fiction participates in many of the conceits currently dominating sf , especially those related to the ...
... political vision is idiosyncratic , challenging , and entertaining . At the same time , at the level of local narrative , MacLeod's fiction participates in many of the conceits currently dominating sf , especially those related to the ...
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