Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson's project on the Poetics of Social Forms. Investigates the development of the Utopian form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of Utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. This book also explores the relationship between utopia and science fiction through the representations of otherness and a study of the works of Philip Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson and others. PART ONE THE DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA Introduction: Utopia Now xi 1 Varieties of the Utopian 1 2 The Utopian Enclave 10 3 Morus: The Generic Window 22 4 Utopian Science versus Utopian Ideology 42 5 The Great Schism 57 6 How to Fulfill a Wish 72 7 The Barrier of Time 85 8 The Unknowability Thesis 107 9 The Alien Body 119 10 Utopia and its Antinomies 142 11 Synthesis, Irony, Neutralization and the Moment of Truth 170 12 Journey into Fear 182 13 The Future as Disruption 211 PART TWO AS FAR AS THOUGHT CAN REACH 1 Fourier, or, Ontology and Utopia 237 2 Generic Discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship 254 3 World Reduction in Le Guin 267 4 Progress versus Utopia, or, Can We Imagine the Future? 281 5 Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting 293 6 The Space of Science Fiction: Narrative in Van Vogt 314 7 Longevity as Class Struggle 328 8 Philip K. Dick, in Memoriam 345 9 After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr Bloodmoney 349 10 History and Salvation in Philip K. Dick 363 11 Fear and Loathing in Globalization 384 12 If I Can Find One Good City, I Will Spare the Man: Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. 393 Acknowledgments 417 Index 419