Living in a Marxist Sci-Fi World: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Power of Science Fiction

The state of our current world has brought about a very active discussion concerning possible alternatives to our current society. In this article, I wish to consider Marx’s idea of communism as a possible alternative, by understanding it as an undetermined concept that only proposes a society witho...

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Autor principal:	Matías Graffigna
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Publicado:	Alfredo Mac Laughlin 2019
Materias:	Philosophy (General) B1-5802 Literature (General) PN1-6790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d20987cf000044ee857f7af50443a3462021-11-11T21:28:33ZLiving in a Marxist Sci-Fi World: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Power of Science Fiction2573-881Xhttps://doaj.org/article/d20987cf000044ee857f7af50443a3462019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jsfphil.org/vol-2/v2-living-in-a-marxist-sci-fi-world/https://doaj.org/toc/2573-881XThe state of our current world has brought about a very active discussion concerning possible alternatives to our current society. In this article, I wish to consider Marx’s idea of communism as a possible alternative, by understanding it as an undetermined concept that only proposes a society without classes and private property. The thesis I will defend here is that we can meaningfully think about such an alternative through the means of Science Fiction literature. In particular, I will take Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (2006) as a case study. To clarify this relation between science fiction (SF) literature and communism as a particular case of an alternative society, I will introduce some concepts of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological theory. Thus, I shall argue that in SF we can presentify in bounded phantasy an alternative life-world, so furnishing with content the undetermined idea, and in doing so, strengthen the belief in the possibility of such an alternative society.Matías GraffignaAlfredo Mac LaughlinarticlePhilosophy (General)B1-5802Literature (General)PN1-6790ENJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, Vol 2, Pp 1-23 (2019)
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description	The state of our current world has brought about a very active discussion concerning possible alternatives to our current society. In this article, I wish to consider Marx’s idea of communism as a possible alternative, by understanding it as an undetermined concept that only proposes a society without classes and private property. The thesis I will defend here is that we can meaningfully think about such an alternative through the means of Science Fiction literature. In particular, I will take Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (2006) as a case study. To clarify this relation between science fiction (SF) literature and communism as a particular case of an alternative society, I will introduce some concepts of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological theory. Thus, I shall argue that in SF we can presentify in bounded phantasy an alternative life-world, so furnishing with content the undetermined idea, and in doing so, strengthen the belief in the possibility of such an alternative society.
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title	Living in a Marxist Sci-Fi World: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Power of Science Fiction
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Living in a Marxist Sci-Fi World: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Power of Science Fiction

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