Red planets

Wesleyan University Press

2009

293 p.

9780819569134

Introduction. Rough guide to a lonely planet, from Nemo to Neo / Mark Bould --The anamorphic estrangements of science fiction / Matthew Beaumont --Art as 'the basic technique of life': utopian art and art in utopia in The dispossessed and Blue Mars / William J. Burling --Marxism, cinema and some dialectics of science fiction and film noir / Carl Freedman --Spectacle, technology and colonialism in SF cinema : the case of Wim Wenders' Until the end of the world / John Rieder --The Singularity is here / Steven Shaviro --Species and species-being: alienated subjectivity and the commodification of animals / Sherryl Vint --Ken MacLeod's permanent revolution: utopian possible worlds, history and the Augenblick in the Fall revolution quartet / Phillip Wegner --'Madonna in moon rocket with breeches': Weimar SF film criticism during the stabilisation period / Iris Luppa --The urban question in new wave SF / Rob Latham --Towards a revolutionary science fiction: Althusser's critique of historicity / Darren Jorgensen --Utopia and science fiction revisited / Andrew Milner --Afterword: cognition as ideology: a dialectic of SF theory / China Miéville.

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