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EMOTION, BRECHT, EMPATHY VS. SYMPATHY (2008, 7,650 words)
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INSIDE THE WHALE, OR ETSI COMMUNISMUS NON DARETUR (2006-07, 9,800 words)
Reflections on How o Live When Communism Is a Necessity but Nowhere on the Horizon
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SOME DIFFERENTIATIONS WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF “MYTH” (2007, 2,950 words)
R. Littlejohns and S. Soncini eds., Myths of Europe. Rodopi. , 2007 This brief overview is divided into sections: 1.1 Approaching “myth” and its divergent, indeed incompatible meanings; discussing first (in 1.2) Cassirer: all creative thought is myth; then (in … Continue reading
IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE TODAY: APARTHEID OR CIVIL COHABITATION? (2006-07, 11,510 words)
0. Introduction; 1. Changes in Mass Displacements: Are Non-Citizens People?; 2. Criteria and Value-Orientations: A Possible Epistemologico-Political Alternative: 2.1. Epistemology: Images of People’s Life, 2.2. Toward Politics: A Right to Citizenship as a Human Right; 3. Some Prospects for Civil … Continue reading
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THE ARRESTED MOMENT IN BENJAMIN’S “THESES ON HISTORY”: EPISTEMOLOGY VS. POLITICS, IMAGE VS. STORY (1999-2007, 10,470 words)
THE INTELLECTUAL’S SEEING AND DOING; 1. INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS, IMAGES AND STRUCTURE (genre, images as method, figural tableaux); 2. ANALYZING “CH” (division, grouping); 3. TIME AND HISTORY, IMAGE AND STORY (refusing the future and stories, arrested moment)
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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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