@goodmanbeaver @HeerJeet I think he's right. Still, it is explicitly anti-capitalist, at least TNG on...
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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 -
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@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 -
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@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 -
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@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 -
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@thodler@goodmanbeaver To simplify: to even raise the possibility of Utopia is to question things as they are.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@goodmanbeaver I started the Jameson this morning, & am going to shut up until I've read more & know what I'm talking about.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@thodler @goodmanbeaver Theoretical stuff in the first part of the book is a real slog, might be better to focus on his reading of LeGuin
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