Part 1 of Red Library's Lost Futures Series   Comrade Neil from the From78 podcast joins Comrade Adam and C.C. Don in the library this week for a real banger of an episode focused on the relationship between science fiction, utopian imaginings, and revolution.   We read through the brilliant sci-fi classic, The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin along with her short story, The Day Before the Revolution, as our core texts. And because we are some major based theory-heads, we also bring in an excellent Fredric Jameson essay on Le Guin from his book, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, for some back up.   This one has a lot of great moments but the highlights are Comrade Neil giving a great overview of a lot of basic Lacanian concepts as they relate to utopia and the revolutionary impulse through characters in the book.    Further Readings/References

• From78's Patreon Page
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Dispossessed Summary
• Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson
• What Uncle Sam Really Wants Table of Contents
• Melanie Klein's Concept of Splitting
• Klein's Paranoid-schizoid and Depressive Positions
• Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution Summary
• Fredric Jameson
• Symbolic Castration
• Psychosis in Psychoanalysis
• One Punch Man Fight Scene
• Zardoz Trailer
• Peter Rollins and Pyrotheology
• Sinthome
• The Big Other
• Lacan's Four Discourses
• Interpellation
• Le Guin on Listening to Unheard Voices
• J. Robert Oppenheimer

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