Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
7 best books like Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Fredric Jameson): Frankissstein: A Love Story, There Will Come Soft Rains, Count Zero, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Literary Theory: An Anthology, Divorcer, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Author | Jeanette Winterson |
ISBN | 1473563259 |
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
There Will Come Soft Rains
One of Ray Bradbury’s most poignant short stories, this also has one his most recognized scenes.
Quietly, somberly describing a smart house after a nuclear holocaust, Bradbury uses this Cold War theme as a vehicle to explore our technological advances and how those same advances can lead...
Author | William Gibson |
ISBN | 0441013678 |
The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.
William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.
But...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Author | Mark Fisher |
ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
Author | Julie Rivkin |
ISBN | 1405106964 |
This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies
A definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical...
Author | Gary Lutz |
ISBN | 0983163359 |
The story "To Whom Might I Have Concerned" is a prime example of the classic Lutz style (sample sentence: "After college: an unenduring, stopgap marriage {he was overhumanized, always prompt in returning any reasonable farewell crackle of affection}, then employment, and co-workers, mostly women...
Author | Ariel Dorfman |
ISBN | 0884770230 |
En este mundo nada escapa a la ideologia. Nada escapa, por lo tanto, a la lucha de clases. Este libro intenta develar los mecanismos especificos por los que la ideologia burguesa se reproduce a traves de los personajes de Walt Disney; indagar, asimismo, en la estructura de las historietas para mostrar...