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WHERE ARE WE: AND A RADICAL WAY OUT (2015, 5,930 words)

Posted on 23 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                          2nd version … Continue reading →

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FROM THE ARCHEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND COMMUNISM (2009-2015, 16000 words)

Posted on 23 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin (2013) “From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology”, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 21:2-3, 279-311, , 2013 Of the two relatively independent parts here, Part 1. characterizes at length three … Continue reading →

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GOODBYE AND HELLO: DIFFERENTIATING WITHIN THE LATER P.K. DICK (2015, 14,960 words)

Posted on 15 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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Preface 2015 to Considering the Sense of “Fantasy” or “Fantastic Fiction”: An Effusion (850 words)

Posted on 8 April 2015 by darkosuvin
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CIRCUMSTANCES AND STANCES: A RETROSPECT (2004, 2,800 words)

Posted on 25 March 2015 by darkosuvin
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PREFACE 2015 TO THE RE-EDITION OF METAMORPHOSES OF SF: CONTRADICTION AND RESISTANCE (2015, 4,500 words)

Posted on 25 March 2015 by darkosuvin
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(With Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS: FORMS, POLITICS, HISTORY — INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2014-15, 18,700 words)

Posted on 23 May 2014 by darkosuvin

INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN* (18,700 words) By Sezgin Boynik, May 2014, Lucca [This piece is forthcoming in Rab-Rab {Helsinki] July 2015] Sezgin Boynik: Can you tell in which way the discussions concerning Brecht and Formalist issues in late fifties and … Continue reading →

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THE ECONOMICO-POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF BORIS KIDRIČ: A BETRAYED DISALIENATION (2011-14, 6,200 words)

Posted on 20 May 2014 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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THE USE OF LUCIO MAGRI (2014, 3,290 words)

Posted on 15 April 2014 by darkosuvin

Magri, Lucio. The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century, translated by Patrick Camiller (London: Verso, 2011). Magri, born 1932, was a leading member of the Manifesto group which was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in … Continue reading →

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ON U.K. LE GUIN’S SPEECH AT NAT. BOOK AWARDS (2014, 1,860 words)

Posted on 5 February 2014 by darkosuvin

A/ URSULA K. LE GUIN, SPEECH [AT NAT. BOOK AWARDS 2014] B/ ON LE GUIN AND HER DECLARATION OF THE ARTS’ INDEPENDENCE FROM CAPITALISM [DS COMMENT ON HER SPEECH] A/ The Guardian, 20 November 2014 22.00 GMT   Ursula K … Continue reading →

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