Author Archives: darkosuvin

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

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin

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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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)

Posted on 25 May 1997 by darkosuvin

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.

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AGAINST ORIGINALS: HONKADORI AND THE HORIZONS OF PASTICHE (1993-97, 8,220 words)

Posted on 25 May 1997 by darkosuvin

A Preliminary Reflection on Pastiche (As Well As Parody); On Japanese honkadori as Catalysis; Some Conclusions: On Originality

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POLITY OR DISASTER: FROM INDIVIDUALIST SELF TOWARD PERSONAL VALENCIES AND COLLECTIVE SUBJECT (1994-96, 23,790 words)

Posted on 1 July 1996 by darkosuvin

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 →

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INTRODUCTION [to LESSONS OF  JAPAN]: ON JAPAN AS MIRAGE AND FEEDBACK, AND OTHER ALLEGORIES (1996, 5,430 words)

Posted on 13 June 1996 by darkosuvin
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THE SOUL AND THE SENSE: MEDITATIONS ON ROLAND BARTHES ON JAPAN (A PROPOS OF THE EMPIRE OF SIGNS) (1990-96, 16,200 words)

Posted on 28 May 1996 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                                                (1990-96, 16,200 words)                   … Continue reading →

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DEITY VS. WARRIOR Nô PLAYS: REVELATION, NOT CONFLICT (1996, 9,340 words)

Posted on 20 May 1996 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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ON COGNITIVE EMOTIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL IMAGINATION  (1995, 16,360 words)

Posted on 28 May 1995 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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REVELATION VS. CONFLICT: DEITY VS. WARRIOR Nô PLAYS AND COMPARATIVE DRAMATURGY (1994, 16,200 words)

Posted on 30 September 1994 by darkosuvin
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ESSAY 2 [in Lessons of Japan]: AGAINST TRANSLATION-AND YET: SEESAWS, PIVOTS, AND PARENTHESES (TWO VOICES OF TRANSLATION DISCOURSE A PROPOS OF A HAIKU BY ISSA) (1993, 11,500 words)

Posted on 13 June 1993 by darkosuvin
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