Who’s Afraid of Dystopia? William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Fredric Jameson’s Writing on Utopia and Science Fiction

摘要

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.