Jameson's Utopia

I kind of have to disagree with not only what a lot of what Jameson is saying, but also the length of the article. It almost could have been turned into a two part series. Lengthy is never a good thing. And the way Jameson wrote was rather on un-exciting pattern and I found myself getting bored with the essay early on. It could be a little naïve, but I’ve always thought of Utopia as perfect and ‘Heavenly;’ and so, in a large sense, non-existent in the mortal world. Politics and Utopia never really made a connection together to me. To say that Utopia is an alternate code for communism and socialism doesn’t exactly sit well with me, largely because of my own beliefs. Utopia could be just another reference to Heaven for many, and the way Jameson describes his own theory is a bit unnerving. He agrees that Utopia is an imaginary concept that is thought up by many, but not completely understood. To me, it would be understood differently by lots of people, since Utopia is imaginary. Jameson also fails to mention what Utopia could be like for just one person, and not a whole society. Again, something that would be needed attention toward. So Jameson’s writing was a bit of disappointment for me.