El impulso utópico en el pensamiento de Fredric Jameson

Abstract

Jameson’s dialectical project tackles representation’s two fold failure inour postmodern age, in which subjects cannot represent the present or imagine the society of the utopian future. The contribution that this work aims to make entails the systematic addressing of the three methods of interpretation of the utopian impulse proposed by Jameson, as well as their articulation in hegemonic «cultural documents» of our postmodern era, in order to achieve the interpretive objective of the North American: politicize the consciousness of readers. To illustrate the content of utopian categories, we will compare them with terms that go against or deny them: Debord’s society of the spectacle, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Italian workerist concept of «multitude» and the logic of «Junkspace» theorized by Koolhaas. Following Jameson’s lead, we will also assess how hegemonic texts –namely apocalyptic fictions– express such utopian impulse in late capitalism.