Defined by a Hollow. Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology

Contents
Dedication ix
Seven Citations from Rimbaud and Brecht xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Phillip E. Wegner
Preface: Emerging from the Flood in Which We Are Sinking: Or, Reading with Darko Suvin (Again) xv
Introduction 2008: On Hollows, or an Alarmed Door 1
Chapter 1
Defining the Literary Genre of Utopia: Some Historical Semantics, Some Genology, a Proposal,
and a Plea (1973) 17
Chapter 2
“Utopian” and “Scientific”: Two Attributes for Socialism from Engels (1976) 49
Chapter 3
Science Fiction and the Novum (1977) 67
Chapter 4
Poems of Doubt and Hope 1983–1988 93
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Chapter 5
Locus, Horizon, and Orientation: The Concept of Possible Worlds as a Key to Utopian Studies (1989) 111
Chapter 6
On William Gibson and Cyberpunk SF (1989–1991) 137
Chapter 7
The Doldrums: Eight Nasty Poems of 1989–1999 157
Chapter 8
Where Are We? How Did We Get Here? Is There Any Way Out? Or, News from the Novum (1997–1998) 169
Chapter 9
Utopianism from Orientation to Agency: What Are We Intellectuals under Post-Fordism to Do?
(1997–1998) 217
Chapter 10
On Cognition as Art and Politics: Reflections for a Toolkit (1997–1999) 269
Chapter 11
What Remains of Zamyatin’s We After the Change of Leviathans? Or, Must Collectivism Be Against People? (1999–2000) 321
Chapter 12
What May the Twentieth Century Amount To: Initial Theses (1999–2000) 361
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Chapter 13
A Tractate on Dystopia 2001 (2001, 2006) 381 
Chapter 14
Seven Poems from the Utopian Hollow: Diary Notes of 2000–2005 413
Chapter 15
Living Labour and the Labour of Living: A Tractate for Looking Forward in the Twenty-first Century
(2004) 419
Chapter 16
Inside the Whale, or etsi communismus non daretur: Reflections on How to Live When Communism Is a Necessity
but Nowhere on the Horizon (2006–2007) 473
Chapter 17
Five Farewell Fantasies of 2006–2008 503 
Chapter 18
Cognition, Freedom, The Dispossessed as a Classic (2007) 509
Index of Names and Works 553