Abstract
Utopia is a socio-economic sub-genre of science fiction. The question of how to imagine a utopia is actually an issue of how to write out the image of a utopia. In Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, there is a formal strategy of "double inscription," which turns the limitation of utopian genre into allegory and critical merits. Thus, it is possible to refute it from the inside of its anthropocentric totality and to divert the interpretation into the field of political ethics. As a result, the surface binary opposition between self and the other is nullified, and the imagination of a zero-degree Utopia, with minimum requirements, falls prey to the practical power field of ideology. It is in this sense that Stanislaw Lem's skepticism deconstructs the utopian imagination.
First Page
112
Last Page
119
Recommended Citation
Chen, Dan. 2016. "Deconstructing Utopian Imagination: The Allegory of Solaris and Others." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (1): pp.112-119. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss1/4
