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Jonathan Safran Foer and the Limits of Liberal Climate Politics Ouch… “What’s so unsettling and even tragic about Foer’s book is that his moralizing is illustrative of a broader self-flagellating despair among many liberals who are troubled by the ominous climate forecasts but who have absorbed right-wing nostrums that it’s a problem of our shared…
Futures of Negation: Jameson’s “Archaeologies of the Future” and Utopian Science Fiction Jameson complicates the specificity of utopian thought in science fictions by situating these messages firmly in the sociocultural and material histories that produce them. Jameson’s explication of the historical conditions that generate individuated wishes for utopia is understandable: the conditions that determine the…