Issue 25/26

New Series Number 25/26 2006
Special Double Issue

IMAGINING THE FUTURE
Utopias and Dystopias

Introduction
Andrew Milner, Matthew Ryan and Robert Savage

Part I
Archaeologies of the Future

The Antinomies of Utopia
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson and Anti-Anti-Utopianism
Peter Fitting

Producing Criticism as Utopia: Fredric Jameson and Science Fiction
Maria Elisa Cevasco

Reading the Maps: Realism, Science Fiction and Utopian Strategies
Dougal McNeill

Part II
The Politics of Utopia

Ideology and Utopia in the work of Fredric Jameson, or, the Counter-Revolution in the Revolution
Ian Buchanan

Archeologies of Anti-Capitalist Utopianism
Verity Burgmann

Critiquing the Violence of Guantanamo: Resisting the Monopolization of the Future
Jess Whyte

An Un-Original Tale: Utopia Denied in Enuma Elish
Maria Elisa Cevasco

 

 

 

 

 

 



Part III
Australian Utopias

(Not) by Design: Utopian Moments in the Creation of Canberrs
Kate Rigby

The Utopian Imagination of Aboriginalism
Darren Jorgensen

Part IV
Utopian Theory

The Illusion of the Future: Notes on Benjamin and Freud
Andrew Benjamin

The Pure Machine's Gambit: Walter Benjamin's Thesis I
Dimitris Vardoulakis

The Utopian Dimension of Thought in Deleuze and Guattari
Eugene W. Holland

'Tragic Utopianism' and Critique in Raymond Williams
Paul Jones

 

notes for contributors

 

 

 

 



Part V
Future Fictions

From Herland to Outland: The Changing Anatomies of Gender Dystopia
Rob Baum

Three French Futures: Australia, Antarctica and Ailleurs
Jacqueline Dutton

Margaret Atwood, Doughnut Holes and the Paradox of Imagining
Toby Widdicombe

Science Fiction as Historical Novel: Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires
David Jack

Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction
Andrew Milner

Part VI
Bibliographical Essay

Eutopias and Dystopias of Science
Lyman Tower Sargent

Part VII
Archive

The Proper Use of Science Fiction
Maurice Blanchot