ARENA journal

Number Twenty-five/Twenty-six, 2006

Contents

Introduction	Andrew Milner, Matthew Ryan and Robert Savage	7
Part I: Archaeologies of the Future
The Antinomies of Utopia (Only Available Hard copy)	Fredric Jameson	15
Fredric Jameson and Anti-Anti-Utopianism	Peter Fitting	37
Producing Criticism as Utopia: Fredric Jameson and Science Fiction	Maria Elisa Cevasco	52
Reading the Maps: Realism, Science Fiction and Utopian Strategies	Dougal McNeill	63
Part II: The Politics of Utopia
Ideology and Utopia in the Work of Fredric Jameson, or, The Counter-Revolution in the Revolution	Ian Buchanan	83
Archaeologies of Anti-Capitalist Utopianism	Verity Burgmann	99
Critiquing the Violence of Guantanamo: Resisting the Monopolization of the Future	Jess Whyte	123
An Un-Original Tale: Utopia Denied in Enuma Elish	Roland Boer	136
Part III: Australian Utopias
(Not) by Design: Utopian Moments in the Creation of Canberra	Kate Rigby	155
The Utopian Imagination of Aboriginalism	Darren Jorgensen	178
Part IV: Utopian Theory
The Illusion of the Future: Notes on Benjamin and Freud	Andrew Benjamin	193
The Pure Machine’s Gambit: Walter Benjamin’s Thesis I	Dimitris Vardoulakis	205
The Utopian Dimension of Thought in Deleuze and Guattari	Eugene W. Holland	217
‘Tragic Utopianism’ and Critique in Raymond Williams	Paul Jones	243
Part V: Future Fictions
From Herland to Outland: The Changing Anatomies of Gender Dystopia	Rob Baum	265
Three French Futures: Australia, Antarctica and Ailleurs	Jacqueline Dutton	278
Margaret Atwood, Doughnut Holes and the Paradox of Imagining	Toby Widdicombe	295
Science Fiction as Historical Novel: Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires	David Jack	319
Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction	Andrew Milner	333
Part VI: Bibliographical Essay
Eutopias and Dystopias of Science	Lyman Tower Sargent	357
Part VII: Archive
The Proper Use of Science Fiction (Only available Hard Copy)	Maurice Blanchot	375