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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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LIVING LABOUR AND THE LABOUR OF LIVING: A TRACTATE FOR LOOKING FORWARD IN THE 21ST CENTURY (2004, 17,750 words)
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On EXILE AS MASS OUTRAGE AND INTELLECTUAL MISSION (2004, 11100 words)
PUBLISHED IN M.T. Chialant ed., Viaggio e letteratura. Marsilio, 2006 A long and much buttressed essay on the political epistemology of exile. It differentiates between Expatriates, Exiles, Émigrés, and Refugees, citizen (in the legal sense) and person, goes into the … Continue reading
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TO LAPUTA AND BACK (2003-04, 9,840 words)
The article is divided into three parts. Part 1, Entering Laputa in the Winter of Our Discontent, deals with general presuppositions, including those on intellectuals in Post-Fordism and as members of de facto English Departments. Part 2, Visiting the Word-Machine, … Continue reading
CONFLICT, CONFLICT ÜBER ALLES?: CONFLICT VS. REVELATION AS STAGE POETICS AND PARADIGMS (1994-2003, 9,400 words)
1. Doubting the Eternal Necessity of Conflict; 2. On Zeami’s mugen nô (Deity Nô) Plays;
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ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS (1974-2003, 9,630 words)
ON THE STRUGATSKY BROTHERS:The SF Opus of the Strugatsky Brothers (1974-81 and 1990)An E-Mail to Russia (2003) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: … Continue reading
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ROMANCE STUDIES IN GERMANY AND WERNER KRAUSS (2002, 7,300 words)
The relations of Romance Studies and Nazism are discussed on the basis of new publications. The second part discusses the career of Werner Krauss, an unjustly neglected scholar.
ACCESS TO AN IDENTIFICATION OF “TERRORISM”: WORDS AND ACTIONS (2002, 7380 words)
2002, Rethinking Marxism
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BRECHT: STANCE, AGENCY, AND EMOTIONS (1989-2002, 15,810 words)
1. On Haltung; 2. Approaching Brecht and Agency; 3. Emotions Are Not Split from Cognition; 4. Emotions Intertwining with Haltung as Basis for Acting
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Darko Suvin 