Carl Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 770683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 46 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
And After
On Science Fiction and Other Cultural Material
291 BOOKS IN REVIEW shifting “from an anthropocentric to a posthuman vision” (173). Such a vision will be the subject of Micali’s last chapter. In chapter five Micali exposes “the social, political, or ethical issues raised by genetic engineering” (184), from Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley—among “the fathers of ‘technocritiquing’” (181)—to Andrew Nichol’s film Gattaca (1997). But the superhuman traits “which are celebrated, feared or reg…
Epistles from UMass
482 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) encourages such an approach. Moreover, in her discussion about Kafer’s “curative imagination,” Cheyne misses an opportunity to discuss how readers might feel towards the lived experiences of those identified as disabled when it comes to dealing with chronic pain or choosing whether or not to undergo curative procedures. Cheyne’s book is relevant to a wide variety of readers, including those interested…
Kennedy in History and in Cinema
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What Kid Wrote
Science fiction and critical theory
Character and Capital in the Wall Street Films of Oliver Stone
American Civilization and Its Discontents
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A Useful Guide to American Science Fiction
From Genre to Political Economy
Notes on Benjamin, Adorno, Mann, and the Cinema of Michael Haneke
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Asimov Versus Robinson
Hobbes After Marx, Scorsese after Coppola
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The Supplement of Coppola
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Science Fiction and its Others
Post-Hetero Sexuality
Perhaps no nation is more occupied with the idea of masculinity than the United States of America
An American Tragedy
There have been a good many works of art based on the character and career of Richard Nixon more, I should guess, than about any other American president since Lincoln and among them are at least three items of major aesthetic significance
Orwell’s Politics by John Newsinger; Orwell
Interviewing Asimov
Speculative fiction and international law
As I have suggested more than once in print, China Mieville is for me the most entertaining, interesting, and intellectually gifted writer of Anglophone speculative fiction to have yet emerged in h
Versions of the American Imperium in Three Westerns by John Ford
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Jules Verne Roundtable
Connections of Late Capitalism
Symposium on Social Science Fiction
A Note on Marxism and Fantasy
Speculative fiction and international law
As I have suggested more than once in print, China Mieville is for me the most entertaining, interesting, and intellectually gifted writer of Anglophone speculative fiction to have yet emerged in h
England as Ideology
t is a commonplace that, with the post-1945 decline of Britain as an economic, political, and military power, its international standing as well as its own sense of national identity have been increasingly determined on the level of cultural production. Whatever the historical imprecisions in the familiar notion of Britain as the Athens of the Pax Americana, the analogy registers a feeling that is fairly widespread on both sides of the Atlantic. …
The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno
1988). The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 85-111
From Genre to Political Economy
Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema
Stanley Kubrick might be described as a metageneric filmmaker, since his major works tend to take apart and to reconstruct the inherited conventions of the pertinent filmic genre (horror in The Shining, historical romance in Barry Lyndon, and so forth). Kubrick's most intense and complex metageneric analysis is of science fiction in 2001. A historical and theoretical consideration of the science-fiction film reveals that it is structured on a cen…
Science Fiction and Critical Theory
Noting the tendency of virtually every school of literary criticisin to privilege, expressly or implicitly, a particular genre, I argue that SF constitutes the generic space exalted by genuinely critical-that is, dialectical-theory. SF, like dialectics, refuses any simple acceptance of the mundane; and in evoking a world which is not ours but which could, at least in principle, become ours, it estranges the actual through an insistence on the pri…
Overdeterminations
problem of the twentieth century, wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, the problem of the color-line. Since The Souls of Black Folk was published, the century has witnessed an epoch-making, intra-imperialist war, two world-historical revolutions, the rise and partial defeat of fascism, the attempted genocide of several peoples (Armenians, Jews, Gypsies) along ethnic but not strictly racial lines, and the development of nuclear weaponry that renders glob…
Towards a Theory of Paranoia
This essay has a twofold aim: to outline a theory of paranoia, and to demonstrate the relevance of this theory to SF in general and to the work of Philip K. Dick in particular. Freud’s various remarks on paranoia—most notably in his reading of Schreber—suggest that paranoia operates by a ruthlessly hermeneutic logic. The paranoiac interprets all worldly phenomena as aspects of a symmetrical and expressive totality at the center of which stands th…
Science Fiction and Critical Theory
Noting the tendency of virtually every school of literary criticisin to privilege, expressly or implicitly, a particular genre, I argue that SF constitutes the generic space exalted by genuinely critical-that is, dialectical-theory. SF, like dialectics, refuses any simple acceptance of the mundane; and in evoking a world which is not ours but which could, at least in principle, become ours, it estranges the actual through an insistence on the pri…
Nietzsche and Ideology-Critique
(1988). Nietzsche and Ideology-Critique: A Note on Twilight of the Idols. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 103-114
The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno
1988). The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 85-111
Reply to Dan Kiamie and Rita DeSalvo
Another Response to John Fekete
The Interventional Marxism of Louis Althusser
(1990). The Interventional Marxism of Louis Althusser. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 308-328
England as Ideology
t is a commonplace that, with the post-1945 decline of Britain as an economic, political, and military power, its international standing as well as its own sense of national identity have been increasingly determined on the level of cultural production. Whatever the historical imprecisions in the familiar notion of Britain as the Athens of the Pax Americana, the analogy registers a feeling that is fairly widespread on both sides of the Atlantic. …
In Search of Dick’s Boswell
Louisiana Duce
(1992). Louisiana Duce: Notes Toward a Systematic Analysis of Postmodern Fascism in America. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19-31
On the Space Program and on Science Fiction
Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema
Stanley Kubrick might be described as a metageneric filmmaker, since his major works tend to take apart and to reconstruct the inherited conventions of the pertinent filmic genre (horror in The Shining, historical romance in Barry Lyndon, and so forth). Kubrick's most intense and complex metageneric analysis is of science fiction in 2001. A historical and theoretical consideration of the science-fiction film reveals that it is structured on a cen…
Remembering Kubrick
Lies, Damned Lies, and Science Fiction
Science Fiction and the Triumph of Feminism
Critical Theory and Science Fiction
Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest in science fiction since the 1970s coincides with the heyday of literary theory, and that likewise science fiction is one of the most theoretically infor…
Adventures of the Dialectic
Appeal for Support
And Yet It Moves
A Note on Marxism and Fantasy
Hail Mary
Symposium on Social Science Fiction
Connections of Late Capitalism
Versions of the American Imperium in Three Westerns by John Ford
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