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Who's Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson's Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson's Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction
Editor(s)
Griffin, Michael J.; Moylan, Tom
Book title
Exploring the utopian impulse : essays on utopian thought and practice
Publisher
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Oxford
Pages
225-242
ISSN/ISBN
978-3-03910-913-5
Series title
Ralahine utopian studies
Number
2
Abstract
Philipp Schweighauser conjoins William Gibson's Neuromancer with Fredric Jameson's writing on Utopiua and science fiction. Contra celebrants of the critical potential of postmodernism who have co-opted the work of Jameson, Schweighauser re-invigorates Jameson as a detractor of political postmodernism. Schweighauser's reading of Gibson's cyberpunk, accordingly, draws on Jameson, takes issue with his dismissal of the dystopian impulse, and relates Jameson's adversarial stance to the cultural and political critique with infuses Neuromancer.
