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Working on a paid review of an academic nonfiction text, Science Fiction and Narrative Form. These texts are often a kind of biography, a glimpse into the authors' way of seeing more than anything capital-T true about SF itself.
That doesn't mean these works aren't useful! It just means we need to go in understanding the work they do, and its limits.
But boy, I'm excited for the Lukács chapter. :) It should get right to why I'm so frustrated by SFF's abysmal take on AI these days.
(Lukács, for folks who didn't waste their lives in certain kinds of academic reading, advanced important theories in Western Marxism. He explored the "reification" of the commodity: a hyperfixation on what we create that commodifies us & our value in turn. This is the part of his theory I suspect will be applied to histories of SF that explore human anxieties / fetishization around AI & other material outcomes of a production-centered culture.)
But that's enough nerding in public. Happy Friday!