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The Political Aesthetic: Nation and Narrativity on the "Starship Enterprise"

by Justine Walden, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Philosophy

Critical Contents Copyright Justine Walden, 1994, all rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Nationalizing Narratives, or, Back to the Future

II. Reflections of the American National

A) Star Trek , Scientificity, Utopia

B) The Fantasy Subject and the Charismatic Roman

C) Barbaric Employment: the Construction of the Docile Other

D) The Irrationalization of Deviance

III. Transnational Representationalism

A) The Pure Performative as Concealment of Oppression

B) The Devaluation and Fetishization of Corporeality

C) Shallowness, or, the Surface of the Televisual