No One Ever Chose To Be Post-Modern: The Utopian Impulse and Contemporary Philosophy as Trauma-Response

Of course, Jameson and Ernst are different from myself insofar as their discussion is falling more on the Eu Topia side of the equation, whereas I'm more interested in the Ou Topia side of the equation (not that I don't look for the good and don't have a utopian urging, just that I'm a fantasy and science fiction writer by inclination; I'm obviously going to gravitate towards the no-place.) And why shouldn't we be interested in places that don't, can't, or won't exist? The world is spanned and mapped and there are no horizons left to cross – much less for a smoker with bad eyes.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJuly 15, 2019Utopian Impulse, postmodernism, Criticism, Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, 2008 Financial Crisis, Deleuze and Guattari, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Frankfurt School, Pepsi, Naomi KleinComment