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Book SynopsisAgain, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies. They are bookended by two conversations between Milner and his editor J.R. Burgmann, the first looking back retrospectively on the development of Milner's thought, the second looking forward prospectively towards the future of academia, the political left and science fiction.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann: An Interview
Part 1 Sociology of Literature
1 Sociology and Literature
2 The "English" Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia
3 The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism
4 On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism
5 Loose Canons and Fallen Angels
6 Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging, Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams
7 Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
8 It's the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
9 Science Fiction and the Literary Field
10 World Systems and World Science Fiction
Part 2 Cultural Materialism
11 Considerations on English Marxism
12 Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism
13 The Revolutions in Favour of Capital
14 Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams
15 Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia
16 Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class
17 Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies
18 From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism
Part 3 Science Fiction
19 Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams
20 Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema
21 Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency
22 Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction
23 Archaeologies of the Future: Jameson's Utopia or Orwell's Dystopia?
24 Time Travelling: Or, How (Not) to Periodise a Genre
25 The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse
26 Ice, Fire and Flood: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene
Andrew Milner co-authored with J.R. Burgmann, Rjurik Davidson and Susan Cousin
Conclusion: Towards 2050 Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann: A Dialogue
Bibliography
Index
