Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions / Fredric Jameson.
Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions / Fredric Jameson.
Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions / Fredric Jameson.
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New York : Verso, 2005.
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2005.
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N813.08762/6
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xvi, 431 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The desire called utopia -- Introduction : utopia now -- 1. Varieties of the utopian -- 2. The utopian enclave -- 3. Morus : the generic window -- 4. Utopian science versus utopian ideology -- 5. The great schism -- 6. How to fulfill a wish -- 7. The barrier of time -- 8. The unknowability th...
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New York : Verso, 2005.
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New York (State)
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2005.
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"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...
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Archaeologies of the future : the desire called utopia and other science fictions / Fredric Jameson.
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Desire called utopia and other science fictions.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N813.08762/6
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1844670333 (alk. paper)
9781844670338 (alk. paper)
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813.0876209372
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991021531159702626
