Author Archives: darkosuvin

WHAT REMAINS OF ZAMYATIN’S WE AFTER THE CHANGE OF LEVIATHANS? OR, MUST COLLECTIVISM BE AGAINST PEOPLE? (1999-2000, 14,030 words)

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HOW TO USE UTOPIA (1999-2000, 1,940 words)

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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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THE DOLDRUMS: EIGHT NASTY POEMS OF 1989-99 (1,730 words)

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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 COGNITION AS ART AND POLITICS: REFLECTIONS FOR A TOOLKIT (1997-99, 16,200 words)

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UTOPIANISM FROM ORIENTATION TO AGENCY:  WHAT ARE WE INTELLECTUALS UNDER POST-FORDISM TO DO?  (1997-98, 17,395 words)

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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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WHERE ARE WE? HOW DID WE GET HERE? IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?:  OR, NEWS FROM THE NOVUM (1997-98, 16,430 words)

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NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION (1995-98, 2,670 words)

NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION;GOODBYE TO EXTRAPOLATION  (1995);SOME NOTES & MEMORIES ON DALE MULLEN’S MAIEUTICS  (1998). In D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. … Continue reading

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