The Desire Called Utopia

We must use the tools we employ to research the past for the future – this is the call Jameson makes in this book, which forms the newest part of his project that he calls “the poetics of social forms.” Starting from Thomas More’s Utopia, which gave its name to this literary genre, and extending to the works of Philip K. Dick, considered “the Shakespeare of science fiction,” Ursula K. Le Guin, who in a sense reconciled science fiction and utopia with The Dispossessed, and other important science fiction writers, he presents a comprehensive archaeology of science fiction and utopia.
We believe that this book, which is the most robust defense of Utopia written since Bloch, is indispensable not only for readers interested in science fiction as a literary genre but also for those exploring the possibilities of the Left imagination.