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CONSIDERING THE SENSE OF “FANTASY” OR “FANTASTIC FICTION”: AN EFFUSION (1999-2001, 21,780 words)
0. Fantasy: Why Bother?; 1. Some Preconditions for Approaching Fantasy; 2. On What Fantastic Fiction Is Not; 3. In medias res: The Genres of Ahistorical Alternative Worlds; 4. Some Dilemmas on Uses and Values of Fantasy.
Posted in 1. SF & UTOPIANISM
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WHAT MAY THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMOUNT TO: INITIAL THESES (1999-2000, 5,225 words)
Posted in 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
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CENTENNIAL POLITICS: ON JAMESON ON BRECHT ON METHOD (1998, 6,990 Words)
O great academics! Still, let’s search more diligently and not despair. Augustine of Hippo The highest thing would be to understand that all phenomena are already theory. Goethe Brecht can be supremely useful to us–people engaged in thinking … Continue reading
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WITH SOBER, ESTRANGING EYES (1998, 19,180 words)
WITH SOBER, ESTRANGING EYES (1998) 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.ch31
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ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND PRAGMATICS OF INTERCULTURAL THEATRE STUDIES: WITH BROOK’S “MAHABHARATA” AS NEGATIVE EXEMPLUM (1997-98, 11,640 words)
1. Syntactic Considerations; 2. Epistemic Considerations: Monadic Truth vs. Caressing; 3. Interculturalism I: The Mythical Estrangement of Brook’s “Mahabharata” exemplum; 4. Interculturalism II: Critical Estrangement, the Body
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