![]() This substantial section of almost 250 pages is written with Jameson’s characteristic skill. ![]() He insists that, after the convulsive shift signalled by the rise of neoliberalism, “the commitment to imagining possible Utopias as such”, as opposed to the outdated or perhaps simply untimely attempt to create utopian blueprints, is itself potentially emancipatory. There Fredric Jameson carefully sifts the dialectical relationship of the ideological and the utopian. The first section, an essay on “The Desire Called Utopia”, asks whether culture can be political, “which is to say critical and subversive”, or whether it is instead “necessarily reappropriated and co-opted by the social system of which it is part”. ![]() ![]() 99Īs its title insists, Archaeologies of the Future represents a self-conscious, and triumphantly self-confident, attempt to find traces of an alternative future that lie embedded in the alienated cultural forms of the present. Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions ( Verso, 2005), £ 14. ![]()
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