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DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS (2011) [Book Partly]

TABLE OF CONTENTS [Paradoxa no. 23] Darko Suvin: A Life in Letters A. Introductory Foreword: Crossing the Border with Darko Suvin by Phillip E. Wegner …………………………………………………..9 1. Introduction (2010) …………………………………………………..21 2. Autobiography 2004: De Darci Natura ………………………..29 B. Meeting Other … Continue reading

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(With Lomeña) AN INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2011, 1,050 words)

Andrés Lomeña AL: I would like to locate your ideological position in literary theory. I suppose that you feel close to Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson (even Slavoj Žižek). Moreover, I suppose that you disagree with aesthetic purism (Harold Bloom) or certain relativisms … Continue reading

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DEFINED BY A HOLLOW: ESSAYS ON UTOPIA, SCIENCE FICTION, AND POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY (2010, 15,800 words)

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PHILLIP E. WEGNER [PREFACE TO DEFINED BY A HOLLOW]: EMERGING FROM THE FLOOD IN WHICH WE ARE SINKING, OR, READING WITH DARKO SUVIN (AGAIN) (2010, 6,440 words)

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THUS SPAKE THE BITTER MUSE (poem 2009, 2,250 words)

See also in Poems Abstract: Long poem in the denunciatory style of the Tanakh prophets, somewhat Hellenised. Repeated line and conclusion: “Do not profit by the blood of your fellows”.  Keywords: Muse, Mammon, justice, death First published in Socialism & … Continue reading

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TOWARD AN ECONOMICS OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL NEGENTROPY (2009, 5,600 words)

Proceedings of the Herakleion 2010 IIPPE Conference, 2010 This work was written for a conference of Leftwing economists IIPPE in Crete 2010 and first published on their site. It is about the relation of official income as measured by the … Continue reading

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DEATH INTO LIFE: FOR A POETICS OF ANTI-CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVE (2009, 5900 words)

Socialism & Democracy 26.2 (July 2012): 91-106, 2012 A prosimetrum — mixture of six convergent sections each having one short poem and one piece of essayistic or argumentative prose. Part 1: the ice age of catastrophic capitalist economy, whose purpose … Continue reading

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ON THE HORIZONS OF EPISTEMOLOGY AND  SCIENCE (2009, 14,360 words)

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading

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WE’VE MET THE ALIENS AND THEY ARE US: WEINBAUM’S PARABLES OF CLASS (1993-2010, 9,960 words)

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. ch29

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INTRODUCTION 2008 (TO DEFINED BY A HOLLOW): ON HOLLOW, OR AN ALARMED DOOR (5,250 words)

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