Article
Review of Darko Suvin's Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology
Historical Materialism
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
8 p.
Publication Date
7-1-2013
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1163/1569206X-12341280
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Abstract
This review considers Darko Suvin’s recent career anthology Defined by a Hollow with respect to debates about the relevance of Marxism and utopian critique in the context of a global neoliberal hegemony that (twenty years after Fukuyama) still imagines itself as the ‘end of history’. Suvin’s work suggests that the relationship between Marxism and aesthetics in such times is not simply a quirk of the academy, but is in fact a politically necessary conjoining of materialist praxis and quasi-religious inspiration.
Citation Information
Gerry Canavan. "Review of Darko Suvin's Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology" Historical Materialism (2013) ISSN: 1569-206X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gerry-canavan/86/
Accepted version. Historical Materialism, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Summer 2013): 209-216. DOI. © 2013 Brill. Used with permission.