| Re: The China Mieville Interview!
JP - His answer to the po-mo question is what I would have expected. In fact, both Matt and I said similar earlier on in that dead cities thread. If all fantasy is a response to modernity, as R.S. Bakker asserted, then that seems to ignore the problem that socialism is an ideology firmly located within the project of modernity. I would have liked him to go further into his relationship with po-mo, because he's certainly influenced by po-mo writers (Harrison), but I think he was trying to avoid coming off as a wanker. Perhaps there's an unfair assumption to equate all radical literature with post-modernism?
Nice interview.
Best,
Luke. |