The In-Discipline of Design by Annie Gentes

Author:Annie Gentes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

4.5.1 Fictions of Science as Reflection on the Present Times

But is science fiction different from the scenario of use that designers and engineers write and how so? Frederic Jameson tries to answer this question when he wonders from a literary point of view if and how we can imagine the future.89 In fact, literary analysis of science fiction points towards the deep social functions of this genre. In particular, some critics say that science fiction is the place where the hidden workings of a society finally emerge as the subconscious of the community. The fantasy that a society has about itself is expressed through sci-fi scenarios.

Reading such stories one could detect:behind such written traces of the political unconscious as the narrative texts of high or mass culture, but also behind those other symptoms or traces which are opinion, ideology, and even philosophical systems—the outlines of some deeper and vaster narrative movement in which the groups of a given collectivity at a certain historical conjuncture anxiously interrogate their fate, and explore it with hope or dread.90

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