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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.
Posted in 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
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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.
Posted in 1. SF & UTOPIANISM
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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;
Posted in 2. BRECHT-DRAMA-THEATRE
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