![]() Indeed, following the emergence of psychoanalysis, of structuralism in linguistics and anthropology, of semiotics together with its new field of “narratology,” of communications theory, and even of such events as the emergence of a politics of surplus consciousness” (Rudolf Bahro) in the 1960s, we have come to feel that abstract ideas and concepts are not necessarily intelligible entities in their own right. What if the “idea” of progress were not an idea at all but rather the symptom of something else? This is the perspective suggested, not merely by the interrogation of cultural texts, such as SF, but by the contemporary discovery of the Symbolic in general. This storm it what we call progress.” – Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History (1939) The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. “A storm is blowing from Paradise it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. “It will then turn out that the world has long dreamt of that of which it had only to have a clear idea to possess it really.” – Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge (1843) ![]() ![]() ![]() Progress versus Utopia or Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson ![]()
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