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Fredric Jameson. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions New York / London. Verso (Norton, distr.). 2005. xvi + 431 pages. $35/£20. ISBN 1-84467-033-3
IN THE FINAL SENTENCE of A Singular Modernity in 2002, Fredric Jameson announced that "ontologies of the present demand archaeologies of the future, not forecasts of the past." In his massive new book, we see what he had in mind. Jameson has always insisted on the importance of science fiction, and in this latest work he seeks to demonstrate that in a present (ours) blinded by ideology and fear to both past and future, the insistence of science fiction on imagining a future different from the present constitutes a cultural intervention of crucial significance.
Archaeologies of the Future is divided into two large sections. Part 1 is a 233-page...