Author Archives: darkosuvin
TO LAPUTA AND BACK (2003-04, 9,840 words)
The article is divided into three parts. Part 1, Entering Laputa in the Winter of Our Discontent, deals with general presuppositions, including those on intellectuals in Post-Fordism and as members of de facto English Departments. Part 2, Visiting the Word-Machine, … Continue reading
CONFLICT, CONFLICT ÜBER ALLES?: CONFLICT VS. REVELATION AS STAGE POETICS AND PARADIGMS (1994-2003, 9,400 words)
1. Doubting the Eternal Necessity of Conflict; 2. On Zeami’s mugen nô (Deity Nô) Plays;
ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS (1974-2003, 9,630 words)
ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS:The SF Opus of the Strugatsky Brothers (1974-81 and 1990)An E-Mail to Russia (2003) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: … Continue reading
ROMANCE STUDIES IN GERMANY AND WERNER KRAUSS (2002, 7,300 words)
The relations of Romance Studies and Nazism are discussed on the basis of new publications. The second part discusses the career of Werner Krauss, an unjustly neglected scholar.
ACCESS TO AN IDENTIFICATION OF “TERRORISM”: WORDS AND ACTIONS (2002, 7380 words)
2002, Rethinking Marxism
BRECHT: STANCE, AGENCY, AND EMOTIONS (1989-2002, 15,810 words)
1. On Haltung; 2. Approaching Brecht and Agency; 3. Emotions Are Not Split from Cognition; 4. Emotions Intertwining with Haltung as Basis for Acting
BESINNUNG; AND WHAT MAY THE CENTURY AMOUNT TO: ON OR ABOUT OR BECAUSE OF MARC ANGENOT AS GOAD AND STIMULUS (2000, 10,450 words)
ON PHILIP K. DICK (1975-2002)
On Philip K. Dick (2 essays): Philip K. Dick’s Opus: Artifice as Refuge and Worldview (1975, 8,060 words)Goodbye and Hello: Differentiating within the Later P.K. Dick (2002, 15,050 words) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions … Continue reading
SF PARABLES OF MUTATION AND CLONING AS/AND COGNITION (2002, 8,760 words)
D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.