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WE HAD A CLASSIC: Notes Defining Predrag Matvejević (2020, 10,700 words)
Japanese Slavic and East European Studies Vol.40. , 2020 A unit in 2 parts: 1/ A necrological look back at PM’s writings and how I encountered them as old friend, with stress on those written after the fall of SFR … Continue reading
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UTOPIA OR BUST: CAPITALOCENE, ANTIUTOPIA (2019, 13,350 words)
Keynote speech at the Utopian Studies Society (Europe) 2019: Part 1: Where Are We in the Capitalocene; Part 2. What Existential Antiutopia Means for Us; Keywords: Capitalocene; utopia; antiutopia; ecocide; totality; epistemology; counterrevolution; violence
ORWELL AND 1984 TODAY: GENIUS AND TUNNEL VISION (2019, 14,500 words)
Orwell, as he himself said, came from a lower, professional service fraction of the English and imperial ruling class that was “simultaneously dominator and dominated” (R. Williams), so that a combination of State and monopoly power became his major nightmare. … Continue reading
WORDS AND LESIONS (2018, 16,800 words)
Abstract: The essay is divided into 2 parts. Part 1, For a Rectification of “Violence”, discusses within a “political epistemology of inflicted lesion” first the denotation and yardsticks of violence, then systemic or “structural” violence, and finally argues for counter-violence … Continue reading
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SATOH’S DANCE OF ANGELS AS A DRAMATURGICAL DISCOURSE SEEKING AND DOUBTING THE YOUNG GENERATION’S REVOLUTION (2018, 10,350 words)
Published, perhaps with some more illos, in in Imaginations: J of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Dec. 20, 12.2 (2021): 343–80, http://10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.17 Part 1 analyses how the Black Tent Theatre (BTT) played Satoh’s Dance of Angels in 1970-71 on the basis of … Continue reading
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LESSONS FROM THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND ITS FALLOUT: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH (2017-2024, 12,180 words)
Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout: An Epistemological Approach. Research Paper no. 7. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southeast Europe, 2017. 48pp. ISBN 978-86-88745-28-4. ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION: https://www.rosalux.de/
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(With Boris Buden) ONLY INTELLIGENT PLANNING WILL SAVE US (2017, 2,850 words)
This interview was originally published in e-flux journal no. 86 (Nov. 2017) and has not been published in hard copy., 2017 A wide-ranging discussion between two ex-Yugoslavs, both from Croatia, both students (in different generations) at Zagreb University, and both … Continue reading
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PARABLES AND USES OF A STUMBLING STONE (2017, 11,880 words)
THE AUTHOR HASN’T UPLOADED THIS PAPER. THOSE INTERESTED CAN WRITE AND REQUEST IT (SEE CONTACT AT BOTTOM OR WRITE dsuvin@gmail.com) Darko Suvin […]
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Tagged communism, epistemology, poetry, politics
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AN APPROACH TO EPISTEMOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND THE POET’S POLITICS — VOL. 41 (2016, 8500 words)
My presupposition is that the common sense or doxa we inherited from High Modernism has failed in, and because of, Post-Modernism and the Post-Fordist triumph of predatory capitalism. This would include the mass misuse of modern sciences in wars and … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, narration, poetry, politics, Social Science
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ILLUMINATING FREEDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IN DAS KAPITAL: ARISTOTLE, LEIBNIZ, AND SPINOZA (2016, 4,500 words)
Abstract: To understand some central presuppositions of Marx’s, such as knowledge and freedom, within an anti-scientistic and anti-bourgeois horizon, central elements within Leibniz and Spinosa are discussed, with a glance at Hegel. Capital turns out to be an anti-Leibnizian monad, … Continue reading
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