![]() While that essay clarifies the concept of the utopian, it does so within the limited historical context of Modernism the present book is far broader in scope. Prior to this, his most systematic account of the utopian was to be found in his long essay titled “Utopia, Modernity, and Death”. In The Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson provides an extended and comprehensive analysis of the utopian, his master concept. Postmodernism (1991) then revealed the totalizing and inescapable force of a reifying consumer capitalism whose only chink was an irrepressible, but fragile, utopian impulse. Later, in The Political Unconscious (1984), Jameson famously asserted that even the libidinal force of Fascism and anti-Semitism has its deep roots in the utopian impulse. This text reveals that the negativity of critical theory is always closely aligned with the utopian. ![]() One of the things Jameson does in his early text, Marxism and Form (1974), is track the role of the utopian in Western Marxism. The utopian is a theme found throughout Jameson’s prodigious oeuvre. The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London, Verso, 2005. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future. ![]()
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