Author Archives: darkosuvin

THE USE-VALUE OF DYING: MAGICAL VS. COGNITIVE UTOPIAN DESIRE IN THE”LEARNING PLAYS” OF PSEUDO-ZENCHIKU, WALEY, AND BRECHT (1991, 19,350 words)

Posted on 27 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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THINKING WORLDS OF A LIMINAL SHINTOIST CYBERMARXIST: FIVE INTERVIEWS (1987-95, 27,300 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

 SF and Theatre  Interview with Yamada Kazuko (1987)  SF and History, Cyberpunk, Russia…  Interview with Horst Pukallus (1989)  SF — Literature, Movies, Theatre, Polytheism  Interview with Liao Chao-yang  (1994)  An Interview with Takayuki Tatsumi  (1984)  ’I Have No Soul and … Continue reading →

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SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94, 4,270 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94) 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.

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THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93, 6,700 words)

Posted on 12 April 1993 by darkosuvin

THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93) 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.chapter 15

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LOCUS, HORIZON, AND ORIENTATION:  THE CONCEPT OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AS A KEY TO UTOPIAN STUDIES (1989, 8,260 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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ON WILLIAM GIBSON AND CYBERPUNK SF AS UTOPIA VS. IDEOLOGY (1989-91, 6,875 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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[WITH MARC ANGENOT] ON ‘POST-MODERNIST’ POLITICAL IMPOTENCE AND THE HORIZONS OF FICTION AND SF: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR FEKETE’S ‘FIVE THESES’ (1988, 4,920 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE (WITH MARC ANGENOT) 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.

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COUNTER-PROJECTS: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE SF OF THE 1880s (1988, 4,310 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

COUNTER-PROJECTS: WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE SF OF THE 1880’S (1988) 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. ch28

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VISIONS OFF YAMADA (poem, 1988)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

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.

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POEMS OF DOUBT AND HOPE 1983-88 (2,325 words)

Posted on 9 April 1993 by darkosuvin

a/ 12 Diary Poems of the Mid-1980s

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