{"product_id":"red-planets-marxism-and-science-fiction-marxism-and-culture-9780745327303","title":"Red Planets Marxism and Science Fiction Marxism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat connects Marxism and Sci-fi?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This collection marks a red shift in thinking about the history, form, and impact of science fiction literature and film. In robust dialectical manoeuvres, the essays, by a dynamic mix of scholars, simultaneously revive, critique, and transform the vibrant tradition of Marxist sf criticism.  The book is a timely, readable, and incisive intervention in contemporary cultural critique' -- Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick.\u003cbr\u003e'Shows what science fiction criticism can do when Marxist critical practice is joined by science studies and the rest of theory. The results are tremendously exciting and powerful, explaining not just a genre but our world' -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo, by Mark Bould\u003cbr\u003e  Part One: Things to come\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Anamorphic Estrangements of Science Fiction, by Matthew Beaumont\u003cbr\u003e  2. Art as 'The Basic Technique of Life': Utopian Art and Art in Utopia in The Dispossessed and Blue Mars, by William J. Burling\u003cbr\u003e  3. Marxism, Cinema and Some Dialectics of Science Fiction and Film Noir, by Carl Freedman\u003cbr\u003e  4. Spectacle, Technology and Colonialism in Sf Cinema: The Case of Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World, by John Rieder \u003cbr\u003e  Part Two: When worlds collide\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Singularity is Here, by Steven Shaviro \u003cbr\u003e  6. Species and Species Being: Alienated Subjectivity and the Commodification of Animals, by Sherryl Vint\u003cbr\u003e  7. Ken MacLeod's Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History and the Augenblick in the Fall Revolution quartet, by Phillip Wegner \u003cbr\u003e  Part Three: Back to the future\u003cbr\u003e  8. 'Madonna in moon rocket with breeches': Weimar sf film criticism during the stabilisation period, by Iris Luppa\u003cbr\u003e  9. The Urban Question in New Wave Sf, by Rob Latham \u003cbr\u003e  10. Towards a Revolutionary Science Fiction: Althusser's Critique of Historicity, by Darren Jorgensen \u003cbr\u003e  11. Utopia and Science Fiction Revisited, by Andrew Milner\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword\u003cbr\u003e  Cognition as Ideology: A Dialectic of Sf Theory, by China Miéville\u003cbr\u003e  Appendices\u003cbr\u003e  Left Sf: Selected and annotated, if not always exactly recommended, works\u003cbr\u003e  Critical and theoretical works\u003cbr\u003e  About the contributors\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404295512407,"sku":"9780745327303","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745327303.jpg?v=1730486012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-planets-marxism-and-science-fiction-marxism-and-culture-9780745327303","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}