Part 1 of Red Library's Lost
Futures Series
Comrade Neil from the From78 podcast joins Comrade Adam
and C.C. Don in the library this week for a real banger of an
episode focused on the relationship between science fiction,
utopian imaginings, and revolution.
We
read through the brilliant sci-fi classic,
The
Dispossessed, by Ursula K.
Le Guin along with her short story, The Day Before the
Revolution, as our core
texts. And because we are some major based theory-heads, we also
bring in an excellent Fredric Jameson essay on Le Guin from his
book, Archaeologies of the
Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions,
for some back up.
This
one has a lot of great moments but the highlights are Comrade Neil
giving a great overview of a lot of basic Lacanian concepts as they
relate to utopia and the revolutionary impulse through characters
in the book.
Further
Readings/References
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