Jameson couples the genres of science fiction and utopian novels, describing their joint historical emergence in the 19th century. It is true that conventional science fiction narratives, like conventional utopian narratives, feature nations of men, politically and psychologically in charge of nonexistent realms. The difference between the genres is that in utopias the men of the future tend to look philosophically at the stars, whereas in science fiction men raid them for consumer capital. I…
