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Replying to @goodmanbeaver
@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 -
Replying to @goodmanbeaver
@goodmanbeaver@HeerJeet I think he's right. Still, it is explicitly anti-capitalist, at least TNG on...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @thodler
@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 -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@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 -
Replying to @thodler
@HeerJeet@goodmanbeaver Seems like exactly when he stopped paying attention. (2/2)3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @thodler
@thodler@goodmanbeaver LeGuin, Russ, Delany, Robinson -- all central s.f. writers -- did Utopian fiction 1970s/1980s. Less such work today1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @goodmanbeaver
@goodmanbeaver@HeerJeet Definitely something there. In Clute's encyclopedia, the only post-'80s example is Banks: http://bit.ly/11v2hSH1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @thodler
@goodmanbeaver@HeerJeet I need to read the Jameson, though, because the LeGuin/Delany/Russ stuff is pretty ambiguously utopian at best iirc3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@thodler @goodmanbeaver failure/impossibility of Utopia can be read as criticism of actual society & not just Utopianism.
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