Science Fiction, Globalization, and “The Desire Called Utopia”: Reimagining the Future and the Ontology of Possibility: Review of Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia by Phillip E. Wegner

Authors

Arun Kumar Pokhrel, University of Florida

Cover Page Footnote

The epigraph is taken from one of the central chapters, “Progress versus Utopia, or Can We Imagine the Future?,” from Fredric Jameson’s well-known book on the practice of SF and narrative utopia, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (London: Verso, 2005), 288–89, which is also the sixth and fi nal volume of his multivolume magnum opus, The Poetics of Social Forms.

Recommended Citation

Pokhrel, Arun Kumar (2017) "Science Fiction, Globalization, and “The Desire Called Utopia”: Reimagining the Future and the Ontology of Possibility: Review of Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia by Phillip E. Wegner," Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture: Vol. 39: Iss. 3, Article 8.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol39/iss3/8