Part 1 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series Comrade Neil from the From78 podcast joins Comrade Adam and C.C. Don in the library this week for a real banger of an episode focused on the relationship between science fiction, utopian imaginings, and revolution. We read through the brilliant sci-fi classic, The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin along with her short story, The Day Before the Revolution, as our core texts. And because we are some major based theory-heads, we also bring in an excellent Fredric Jameson essay on Le Guin from his book, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, for some back up. This one has a lot of great moments but the highlights are Comrade Neil giving a great overview of a lot of basic Lacanian concepts as they relate to utopia and the revolutionary impulse through characters in the book. Further Readings/References
- From78's Patreon Page
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed Summary
- Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants Table of Contents
- Melanie Klein's Concept of Splitting
- Klein's Paranoid-schizoid and Depressive Positions
- Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution Summary
- Fredric Jameson
- Symbolic Castration
- Psychosis in Psychoanalysis
- One Punch Man Fight Scene
- Zardoz Trailer
- Peter Rollins and Pyrotheology
- Sinthome
- The Big Other
- Lacan's Four Discourses
- Interpellation
- Le Guin on Listening to Unheard Voices
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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