![]() ![]() Skinner’s Walden Two to demonstrate the need for de- or re-programming. For instance, in discussing the tendency of utopias to isolate themselves from the surrounding world, he takes the example of B.F. The overwhelming preponderance of literary works cited to substantiate Jameson’s arguments are science fiction, and from the USA. ![]() There is a second agenda at work here two, evident in Jameson’s choice of examples. The overall effect is thus of several arguments ongoing from Jameson, all characterized by his usual theoretical precision and density of reference. Part One (‘The Desire Called Utopia’) presents an examination of utopias Part Two gathers together essays on science fiction from the last thirty years or so. The present volume is really two books in one. ![]() Fredric Jameson here continues his enquiry into the nature of the literary utopia and through his title casts himself as an archaeologist of narratives, digging behind surface accounts to find covert sequences and generally scrutinizing the working of ideology through narrative practice. ![]()
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