During a period when Utopia (beloved of artists and left thinking , the EU for instance, tout court) has been considered
a euphemism for the Gulag, you could argue like Jameson that there is an (usually unconscious) utopian element in all culture and politics, No matter how commercial the artefact or noxious the movement.
The last words of Valences of the Dialectic maintain that.
the yearning for Utopia is for the desire that other systems, other spaces, are still possible..
It was in the light of the feeling of a windless postmodern stasis that Jameson wanted to stick up for utopianism, especially in Archaeologies of the Future (2005), his appreciation of Utopia as a subgenre of science fiction and an immortal human desire: ‘The very political weakness of Utopia in previous generations – namely that it furnished nothing like an account of agency, nor did it have a coherent historical and practical-political picture of transition – now becomes a strength in a situation in which neither of these problems seems currently to offer candidates for a solution.’
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a euphemism for the Gulag, you could argue like Jameson that there is an (usually unconscious) utopian element in all culture and politics, No matter how commercial the artefact or noxious the movement.
The last words of Valences of the Dialectic maintain that.
the yearning for Utopia is for the desire that other systems, other spaces, are still possible..
It was in the light of the feeling of a windless postmodern stasis that Jameson wanted to stick up for utopianism, especially in Archaeologies of the Future (2005), his appreciation of Utopia as a subgenre of science fiction and an immortal human desire: ‘The very political weakness of Utopia in previous generations – namely that it furnished nothing like an account of agency, nor did it have a coherent historical and practical-political picture of transition – now becomes a strength in a situation in which neither of these problems seems currently to offer candidates for a solution.’
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