As a socialist voice during a period of long defeat for the left, this book is a timely resource as socialist and Marxist scholarship shows signs of renewed vitality. The essays are ordered chronologically within each of its three themes: sociology of literature, cultural materialism and science fiction.
Burgmann) and are bookended by discussions between Milner and Burgmann that contextualise Milner’s political allegiances, intellectual interests and development. The essays are impressively edited by his son James (J. His new book Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2019), collects many of his essays, published and unpublished, since the early 1980s. Andrew Milner has been part of the local discussion with interventions across books and articles that have involved reminding us of the Marxist origins of cultural studies, arguing against a depoliticised focus on popular culture and advocating for the importance of Raymond Williams’s radical vision. Compared with more established disciplines, cultural studies seemed continually emergent with ongoing self-definition a prominent feature of the whole enterprise.
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