This major work finally confronts us with the bankruptcy of our political imagination. The so-called anticipatory literature has indeed often wondered how one could live in a realized utopia, in other words in a world where there would be nothing more to hope for than the eternal perpetuation of the Same. Jameson dares to look in science fiction for clues to a thought of radical Otherness: Philip K, Dick, HG Wells, Ursula Le Guin or William Gibson are among others summoned. Temporal difference, on the other hand - the establishment of a utopian society constituting the negation of human history. Spatial difference, on the one hand - from Thomas More's inaugural gesture, utopia was defined as a separate world obeying its own laws. On the contrary, this book invites us to reconsider utopia as a thought (and practice) of radical difference. Fredric Jameson does not offer us an additional utopia. What type of humanity would suit a society radically different from ours? Do we need to invent a new concept of man? But who still believes in utopia? Discredited by the "totalitarian" shipwreck, despised by left and right alike, eclipsed by "pragmatic" that is to say neo-liberal policies, and forgotten by an anti-globalization movement which, on the whole, would be satisfied with a fairer and more egalitarian arrangement of the globalized capitalist system, utopia seems well and truly dead.
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