Category Archives: 1. SF & UTOPIANISM

THIS IS A DESCENDING CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, FROM 2022 BACKWARDS. REASON: ALL POSITIONS ARE HISTORICAL, AND THEY ARE BEST UNDERSTOOD IN CONNEXION WITH ITS MOMENT. LATER ENTRIES MAY MODIFY EARLIER POSITIONS.

TWO CHECKLISTS OF DISSEMINATED ITEMS THAT CONCERN SF (WITH UTOPIAN FICTION OR UTOPIANISM, AND A FEW BORDER ITEMS) (9,200 Words)

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DARKO R. SUVIN, Personal Resume as Concerns SF and Utopia/nism (2024)

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RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION 1956 – 1974: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1975 and 2024, 17,200 words)

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LOOKING BACKWARD AT AND FORWARD FROM THE NOVUM: FRIENDLY OR INIMICAL TO LIFE? (2023, 7.530 words)

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DISPUTING THE DELUGE (2022, 184,645 words)

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ON FAKE (DEATH-DEALING) VS. TRUE (LIFE-AFFIRMING) NOVUMS (2021, 2,500 words)

Abstract: Overview of novum; we need radically liberating novums only; differentiations withinthe novum – graph and comment;

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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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ON UNDERSTANDING OUR NEEDY WORLD THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION AND UTOPIA/NISM (2021, 10,830 words)

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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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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

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