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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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USES OF MARX: THE IMPLICIT OF THE MANIFESTED (OR, DEMYSTIFICATION AND CRITIQUE) (2016, 19,500 words)
This integral version was first published in Rab-Rab [Helsinki] no. 3 (2016): 35-72., 2016 A smaller paper on the Communist Manifesto was first written by MA + DS in French and English and redone much later by DS only. It … Continue reading
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TO EXPLAIN [THE HISTORY OF] FASCISM TODAY (2016 – 2024, 24,100 words)
Fascism is discussed as a pathology of masses under capitalism, and its components are defined. It was a class block between rulers and segments of the middle classes while neutralising the working classes and any deviant political forces by terror … Continue reading
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ILLUMINATING FREEDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IN DAS KAPITAL: ARISTOTLE, LEIBNIZ, AND SPINOZA (version 13-1-2016, 4,480 words)
To understand some central presuppositions of Marx’s within an anti-scientistic and anti-bourgeois horizon, such as knowledge and freedom, some 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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MY BRECHT: A LOOK FROM 2016 (7,000 words)
Communications of Int’l Brecht Soc. online edition no. 1, 2017. https://e-cibs.org/issue-1-2017/#suvinstart This overview of DS’s work on Brecht (further BB) was written as Introduction to a collection of my essays translated into Slovene and published in Ljubljana 2016 as Brecht’s … Continue reading
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