A review by redbecca
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson

5.0

One of the rare books that really merits the "amazing" mark. The book is difficult to read because the ideas are deeply explored, original and counter-intuitive in many cases. Jameson also draws on a huge range of philosophical and literary texts, and actually explains them fairly clearly. Unlike a lot of literary theory that may rely on obscure language to express banal ideas, perform standard or moralistic ideological readings of narratives, /or congratulate itself for radicalism in some way, this book, like Jameson's earlier _The Political Unconscious_ really offers startling and fresh readings of texts as well as a deep appreciation and consideration of literary forms.