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DARKO R. SUVIN, Personal Resume as Concerns SF and Utopia/nism (2024)
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WORDS, SHAPES, AND OUR COMMON WORLD (2021, 5,550 words)
Introduction to my book Disputing the Deluge, ed. Hugh C. O’Connell, Bloomsbury Academic. A somewhat autobiographically inclined introduction to a new book of articles and poems 2001-21 is divided into: 1. Words Shaping the World, dealing with art as freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiutopian novel, Capitalism, narration, violence
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IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO (2020, 5,000 words)
Introduction to my book Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, ed. Eric D. Smith, 2 Vols., P. Lang, Oxford 2021. Abstract: A somewhat autobiographically inclined introduction to a new book of articles and … Continue reading
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Tagged communism, freedom, parables
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CAPITALISM IS NOT BIOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE FOR HOMO SAPIENS: Thots in a Siege (May-Aug. 2020, 3,750 words)
First published as “Thoughts within the Coronising Siege” Political Animal Magazine, http://www.politicalanimalmagazine.com/themes/theory/, also utopian-studies-europe.org/coronising; A series of fragments from e-mail debates with comrades during the corona lockdown in March ‘20 and a bit after. Sections: A/ long duration prospects, centrally … Continue reading
UTOPIA OR BUST: CAPITALOCENE, ANTIUTOPIA (2019, 13,350 words)
Keynote speech at the Utopian Studies Society (Europe) 2019: Part 1: Where Are We in the Capitalocene; Part 2. What Existential Antiutopia Means for Us; Keywords: Capitalocene; utopia; antiutopia; ecocide; totality; epistemology; counterrevolution; violence
Darko Suvin 