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The Culture of "The Culture" - Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks's Space Opera Series (Hardcover)
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The Culture of "The Culture" - Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks's Space Opera Series (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 65
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In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became
one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with
his space opera series concerned with the pan-galactic utopian
civilisation known as "the Culture" widely regarded as his most
significant contribution to science fiction. The Culture of "The
Culture" focuses solely on this series, providing a comprehensive,
thematic analysis of Banks's Culture stories from Consider Phlebas
to The Hydrogen Sonata. It explores the development of Banks's
political, philosophical and literary thought, arguing that the
Culture offers both an image of a harmonious civilisation modelled
on an alternative socialist form of globalisation and a critique of
our neo-liberal present. As Joseph Norman explains, the Culture is
the result of an ongoing utopian process, attempting through the
application of technoscience to move beyond obstacles to progress
such as imperialism, capitalism, the human condition, religious
dogma, patriarchy and crises in artistic representation. The
Culture of "The Culture" defines Banks's creation as culture: a
utopian way of doing, of being, of seeing: an approach, an attitude
and a lifestyle that has enabled, and is evolving alongside,
utopia, rather than an image of a static end-state.
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