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COGNITION, FREEDOM, THE DISPOSSESSED AS A CLASSIC (2007, 15,970 words)
COGNITION, FREEDOM, THE DISPOSSESSED AS A CLASSIC (2007) 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.chapter 10
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BRECHT AND SUBJECTIVITY: STANCE, EMOTION AS SYMPATHY (1989-2006, 9,570 words) [from book DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS]
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FANTASY AS CRITIQUE AND COGNITION: MARX’S BLACK METAMORPHOSES OF LIVING LABOUR (2006, 3,200 words)
C. Bordoni ed., Linee d’ombra: letture del fantastico in onore di Romolo Runcini. Pellegrini Discussion of possible uses of Fantasy on texts of MArx, written 2003-05 (3,200 words)
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Tagged epistemology, fantasy, Marxism, marxism theory, science fiction and fantasy
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ANATOMISING DYSTOPIA (2001-06, 12,000 words)
A Little Tractate On Dystopia 2001 is a sequence of “theses,” many of which have one or more appended “glosses,” grouped into sections. The section “Premises” (theses 1-3) leads to “A/ Epistemology and Utopia” (theses 4-13), “B/ Politics and Dystopia” … Continue reading
ON U.K. LE GUIN’S “SECOND EARTHSEA TRILOGY” AND ITS COGNITIONS: A COMMENTARY* (2006, 8,200)
Abstract: Chapter in D. Suvin. Disputing the Deluge: C21 Writings on Utopia, Narration, Horizons of Survival. Ed. Hugh O’Connell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 1. The Creation of Ea(rthsea), Twice; 2. Tehanu: What Happens to Tenar; 3. “The Finder”: The Theory of Earthly Politics; … Continue reading
FROM MALLARMÉ’S PURIFICATION TO KONG FU-TSE’S RECTIFICATION OF TERMS: PICTURES FROM AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION (2006, 5,500 WORDS)
Contemporanea no. 6 , 2008 Epistemological discussion of the terms power and conflict based on a poem by Mallarmé and a fragment of Confucius.
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WAR AND MILITARISM IN SF (2005, 24,200 + 2,390 words)
Critical survey of mainly US SF dealing with war &/or with militarist horizon, from C19 to 2000, with stress on 1959 on.
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