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Late Capitalism and Its Fictitious Future(S) the Postmodern, Science Fiction, and the Contemporary Dystopia LATE CAPITALISM AND ITS FICTITIOUS FUTURE(S) THE POSTMODERN, SCIENCE FICTION, AND THE CONTEMPORARY DYSTOPIA Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn vorgelegt von DENNIS GEEF aus Remagen (Rhein) Bonn 2015 ZUSAMMENSETZUNG DER PRÜFUNGSKOMMISSION: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Küchler (Vorsitzender) Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich (Betreuerin und Gutachterin) Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumann (Gutachter) PD Dr. Thomas Zwenger (weiteres prüfungsberechtigtes Mitglied) Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 22.01.2015 Erscheinungsjahr: 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................7 PLAYLIST......................................................................................................8 0. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................9 1. PRELIMINARIES 1.1 DECONSTRUCTING THE POSTSTRUCTURALIST FALLACIES 1.1.1 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FALLACY..........................................18 1.1.2 THEORETICAL SUICIDE.........................................................24 1.1.3 THE POSTSTRUCTURALIST SUBJECT......................................28 1.2 PARA-, GENRE-, ENTERTAINMENT, AND SUBLITERATURE................34 1.3 DISKURSANALYSE AND TRANSPARENZ...........................................38 1.4 IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILENT MAJORITIES.................................40 1.5 COGNITIVE MAPPING AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS.......................42 1.6 POSTMODERN ETHICS...................................................................46 2. A NEW PHASE OF CAPITALISM 2.1 35 YEARS WORTH OF CLASS WAR..................................................48 2.1.1 WHAT DID THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION CHANGE?...............53 2.1.2 THE DEATH OF BRETTON WOODS AND KEYNESIANISM........57 2.1.3 NEO-COLONIALISM AND THE RISE OF THE NEW RIGHT.........59 2.1.4 MARKETS AND EMPIRES......................................................71 2.2 LATE CAPITALISM AND POSTMODERNITY.......................................73 2.3 WHAT'S IN A NAME?.....................................................................79 2.4 THE FREE-MARKET TRINITY............................................................86 2.4.1 DEREGULATION....................................................................86 2.4.2 PRIVATIZATION....................................................................89 2.4.3 SOCIAL DARWINISM RELOADED...........................................91 3. CAPITALIST CASUALTIES 3.1 INFORMATION, CYBERNETIC, AND BIOCAPITALISM........................93 3.2 DISASTER CAPITALISM...................................................................97 3.3 CASINO CAPITALISM......................................................................99 3.4 FRACTIONAL-RESERVE BANKING..................................................101 3.5 SAVAGE CAPITALISM....................................................................103 3.6 TURBO-CAPITALISM AND HYPER-COMMODIFICATION.................108 3.7 DIVIDE AND CONSUME................................................................110 3.8 EXTINCTION CRISES AND COCA COLA PRESIDENTS.......................111 3.9 MORITURI TE SALUTANT..............................................................114 4. THE POSTMODERN CONDITION 4.1 ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR..............................................116 4.2 CYBERBLITZ.................................................................................123 5 4.3 THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM.…..............................127 4.4 POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE POSTMODERNITY............133 4.5 APPROACHING POSTMODERNISM'S DEPARTURE.........................136 4.6 DYSTOPIA NOW...........................................................................140 4.7 THE EXTROPY MYTH AND THE POSTMODERN DENIAL OF TRAGEDY.....................................................................................145 4.8 THE BLOODY UNDERSIDE.............................................................149 4.9 THE POSTMODERN METANARRATIVE..........................................154 5. POSTMODERN FICTION 5.1 POSTMODERNIST LITERATURE.....................................................156 5.2 POSTMODERN REALISM VS. NEO-REALISM..................................166 5.3 REALISM, POSTREALISM, AND MINIMAL REALISM.......................170 5.4 HYBRID FICTION..........................................................................173 6. SCIENCE FICTION 6.1 SCIENCE FICTIONALIZATION.........................................................175 6.2 A CONCISE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION.....................................182 6.3 CYBERPUNK SCIENCE FICTION......................................................186 6.4 POSTCYBERPUNK.........................................................................192 7. PHENOMENOLOGY 7.1 PAUL AUSTER: IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS........................196 7.2 KURT VONNEGUT: HOCUS POCUS................................................212 7.3 PATRICIA ANTHONY: COLD ALLIES................................................233 7.4 PATRICIA ANTHONY: BROTHER TERMITE......................................244 7.5 WILLIAM GIBSON: PATTERN RECOGNITION..................................253 7.6 RICHARD K. MORGAN: MARKET FORCES......................................271 7.7 J. G. BALLARD: KINGDOM COME..................................................281 7.8 CORMAC MCCARTHY: THE ROAD.................................................296 7.9 RICHARD K. MORGAN: THIRTEEN.................................................312 7.10 CHUCK PALAHNIUK: RANT..........................................................317 7.11 GARY SHTEYNGART: SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY....................332 7.12 KEN MACLEOD: INTRUSION.......................................................340 7.13 ERIC BROWN: THE SERENE INVASION.........................................346 8. CONCLUSION........................................................................................352 9. BIBLIOGRAPHY 9.1 PRIMARY SOURCES......................................................................366 9.2 SECONDARY SOURCES.................................................................367 10. NOTES................................................................................................392 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I would like to thank the following persons and institutions for their support in no particular order: Boris Veszely; my sister, Yvonne Geef; my grandmother, Margret Rolser; Marine Aimée Bastide; Gudrun Körver a.k.a. Laura Bach; Chris Cloidt; the Kardinal-Galen-Haus Bonn; Liane Meyn; Tobi Schmidt; the Germany national football team; and last but not least Gabriel Rittel. Thank you! 7 PLAYLIST: Attitude Adjustment 'Out of Hand' / 'No More Mr Nice Guy' / 'American Paranoia' / Shai Hulud 'That Within Blood Ill-Tempered' / 'Misanthropy Pure' / 'Hearts once Nourished with Hope and Compassion' / Flag of Democracy 'Schneller' / Flag of Democracy 'Hate Rock' / RAMBO 'Wall of Death the System' / SFA 'Solace' / Defy False Authority 'Defy False Authority' / Against All Authority 'Nothing New for Trash like You' / Stromae 'Alors on danse' / Ugly Duckling 'Combo Meal' / Amulet 'The Burning Sphere' / Sheer Terror 'Thanks fer Nuthin'' / SLIME 'Sich fügen heißt lügen' / Del the Funky Homosapien 'No Need for Alarm' / RZA as Bobby Digital LP / Dead Prez 'Revolutionary but Gangsta' / The Beastie Boys 'Ill Communication' / Prince Paul 'Politics of the Business' / Ghostface Killah 'Ironman' / Gravediggaz ' The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel' / Raekwon 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx' / KRS One 'Keep Right' / KRS One 'St.' / Group Home 'Livin' Proof' / Eminem 'The Marshall Mathers LP' / Dead Prez 'Let's Get Free' / Against All Authority-The Criminals 'Split 10”' / Muff Potter 'Wunschkonzert' / D.R.I. 'Dirty Rotten LP' / Leftover Crack 'Fuck World Trade' / Sheer Terror 'Love Songs for the Unloved' / Muff Potter 'Schrei wenn du brennst' / Gang Starr 'Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr' / Nas 'Illmatic' / Genius/GZA 'Liquid Swords' / Mobb Deep 'The Infamous' / KRS One 'Sneak Attack' / A Tribe Called Quest 'The Low End Theory' / Public Enemy 'There's a Poison Goin' on...' / Del the Funky Homosapien 'Both Sides of the Brain' / Gang Starr 'Step in the Arena' / Eric B. & Rakim 'Don't Sweat the Technique' / The Goats 'Tricks of the Shade' / Ghostface Killah 'Supreme Clientele' / The Lurkers 'Fulham Fallout' / U.K. Subs 'Another Kind of Blues' / The Fall 'Hex Enducation Hour' / Upright Citizens 'Bombs of Peace' / Ratos de porao 'Seculo sinistro' / The Saints 'I'm Stranded' / Alternative TV 'The Image Has Cracked' / FEAR 'The Record' / Stiff Little Fingers 'Inflammable Material' / Slapshot 'Back on the Map' / Negative FX 'Discography' / Rage Against the Machine 'Renegades' / The Prodigy 'Invaders Must Die' / 8 0. INTRODUCTION The overall goal of this study is (first) to investigate the changes our global economic order went through during the last three decades, (second) to show how these changes are addressed in literature, especially in the literary genres of science fiction (SF) and dystopia, (third) to elucidate the postmodern condition with a particular emphasis on the question if it is still possible to speak of a postmodern condition as such in the present, and (fourth) if there still is an output of postmodern literature being produced in the new millennium. This study's scope in terms of literary theory draws upon Tom Moylan's term of the 'critical dystopia'. Moylan defines the 'critical dystopia' as opposed
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