Author Archives: darkosuvin
TWO CHEERS FOR ESSENTIALISM AND TOTALITY: ON MARX’S OSCILLATION AND ITS LIMITS (AS WELL AS ON THE TABOOS OF POST-MODERNISM (1997, 8,570 words)
A revisitation of Marx, accepting demystification and critique but repudiating “progress” in favour of multi-causality and open ends, and arguing for a carefully delimited (historical) use of essence and of an epistemological or hermeneutic but not an ontological totality.
AGAINST ORIGINALS: HONKADORI AND THE HORIZONS OF PASTICHE (1993-97, 8,220 words)
A Preliminary Reflection on Pastiche (As Well As Parody); On Japanese honkadori as Catalysis; Some Conclusions: On Originality
ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND PRAGMATICS OF INTERCULTURAL THEATRE STUDIES (1997, 11,600 words)
Darko Suvin (1997, 11,600 words) */This essay was published in Darko Suvin: A Life in … Continue reading
POLITY OR DISASTER: FROM INDIVIDUALIST SELF TOWARD PERSONAL VALENCIES AND COLLECTIVE SUBJECT (1994-96, 23,790 words)
0. Stance, Constituency, Epistemology; 1. Subject as Social Allegory vs. Self as Interiority and the Pivot Formulation of Descartes; 2. Deconstruction: Hello and Goodbye; 3. To Position a Survivable Polity, Non-Interiority, Valencies for Subjectivity; 4. Briefly, On Body Politics; 5. … Continue reading
THE SOUL AND THE SENSE: MEDITATIONS ON ROLAND BARTHES ON JAPAN (A PROPOS OF THE EMPIRE OF SIGNS) (1990-96, 16,200 words)
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DEITY VS. WARRIOR Nô PLAYS: REVELATION, NOT CONFLICT (1996, 9,340 words)
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ON COGNITIVE EMOTIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL IMAGINATION (1995, 16,360 words)
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