![]() Their only unifying characteristic – the uncanny and the remote. I have taken Jameson’s title and uses it instead to myself as an archaeologist of new fictions and futures.Īrchaeologies of the Future: Chaos and Coincidence is a series of experiments and observations, constructed by observing, recording, fictionalizing, and imagining objects and spaces that exist at the interface between remote past and possible future, utopia and dystopia, the human and non-human.Ĭomprising video, photographs and drawing, the work is a collection of new terrains, where skies, nomadic observation sites, telescopes and cyanometers, mix familiarity with strangeness, suggesting a new way of imagining the interconnectedness of things. The title of this body of work draws inspiration from the seminal text by Fredric Jameson, which examines the functions of utopian thinking by exploring the relationship between utopia and science fiction. ![]() ![]() “Like archaeologists of the future, we must piece together what will have been thought.” – Timothy Morton Jameson, Fredric is the author of Archaeologies of the Future The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, published 2007 under ISBN 9781844675388 and. “For the apparent realism of SF (science fiction) has concealed another, far more complex temporal structure: not to give us “images” of the future – but rather to de-familiarize and restructure our experience of our own present.” – Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson Share Archaeologies of the Future is a two-part volume in which Marxist literary critic Fredric Jameson presents a new, 233-page study of Utopiawhich he unfailingly capitalizesalongside twelve previously published essays on the subject. ![]()
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