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Here are some half-formed thoughts:
Desire and Dystopia in Dick’s “Wholesale” and LeGuin Lathe of Heaven
If Utopia is largely political, then politics is about competing narratives. Competing narratives are different instantiations or competing outgrowths of desire.
How is desire expressed as possible existence(s) in PKD, “Wholesale”:
The desire or will to live (the narrative about the aliens [...]

What did anyone make of the opening paragraphs of Lathe of Heaven?
And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking. . .
What will the creature made of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind [...]