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GERRY CANAVAN: THE “SUVIN EVENT” (2016, 9,200 WORDS)
The Introduction by Prof. Gerry Canavan, the meritorious editor of the 1979 enlarged MOSF edition is here reproduced for the interest it has, and by his kind permission. The opinions are of course his. “The Suvin Event” Gerry Canavan In … Continue reading
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EPISTEMOLOGICAL MEDITATIONS ON SCIENCE, NARRATION/POETRY, AND POLITICS (2015, 7,300 words)
1. Central Orientation Points for Epistemology: For a “Soft” Skepticism; 2. Cognition Is Constituted by and as History: Life-destroying and Life-preserving Science; 3. Narrations in Science and Fiction: 3.21. On Pragmatic Anchorage, 3.22. On Porous Boundaries between Form and Actuality; … Continue reading
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A FIRST STEP (2015, 9,800 words)
Where We Are; 2. Who Are We (Proletarians, Plebeians Today)?; 3. Decolonising the Mind; 4. Neither With You nor Without You: On an Anti-capitalist Political Party in the 2010s; 5. What Now?: Initial Proposals
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ON BRECHT’S “THE MANIFESTO”: COMMENTS FOR READERS IN ENGLISH (2015, 9,100 words)
Part 1 is the translation by D. Suvin of a putative poem by Brecht Das Manifest (The Manifesto) pieced together from his various versions from 1944 on. Part 2 is a comment article that discusses Brecht’s intention in 1944-45 to … Continue reading
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COMMUNISM CAN ONLY BE RADICAL PLEBEIAN DEMOCRACY: REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF S.F.R. YUGOSLAVIA AND ON CIVIL SOCIETY (2015, 13,500 words)
International Critical Thought 6.2 (2016): 165-89., 2016 The essay is divided into approach and two parts plus a short summation. The approach poses the theme of nexus between communism and democracy as the only hope to oppose the present neo-fascist … Continue reading
(with Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS (2014-15, 18,700 words)
Interview with SB on Formalism vs. class history in culture, especially in Yugoslavia 1945-65, also in general.
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WHERE ARE WE: AND A RADICAL WAY OUT (2015, 5,930 words)
Darko Suvin 2nd version … Continue reading
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FROM THE ARCHEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND COMMUNISM (2009-2015, 16000 words)
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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