@ckilpatrick Jameson interestingly argues there has been no important utopian fiction since widespread introduction of personal computer
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@thodler@heerjeet Looked it up: he lumps TREK in with "safe liberal anti-colonialism", opposes it to LeGuin and Lem and the Strugatskys1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@goodmanbeaver@HeerJeet I think he's right. Still, it is explicitly anti-capitalist, at least TNG on...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@thodler@goodmanbeaver But Jameson's most intense interest in SF was 1960s/1970s. I don't think he's kept up much after that.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@goodmanbeaver Then he shouldn't claim "no important utopian fiction since widespread introduction of personal computer"! (1/2)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@goodmanbeaver Seems like exactly when he stopped paying attention. (2/2)3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@thodler @goodmanbeaver Element of truth in Jameson's claim is that Utopian impulse in genre was stronger in 1970s.
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