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.

ON COGNITION AS ART AND POLITICS: REFLECTIONS FOR A TOOLKIT (1997-99, 16,200 words)

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UTOPIANISM FROM ORIENTATION TO AGENCY:  WHAT ARE WE INTELLECTUALS UNDER POST-FORDISM TO DO?  (1997-98, 17,395 words)

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WHERE ARE WE? HOW DID WE GET HERE? IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?:  OR, NEWS FROM THE NOVUM (1997-98, 16,430 words)

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NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION (1995-98, 2,670 words)

NOTES AND MEMORIES ON SCIENCE FICTION;GOODBYE TO EXTRAPOLATION  (1995);SOME NOTES & MEMORIES ON DALE MULLEN’S MAIEUTICS  (1998). In D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. … Continue reading

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THINKING WORLDS OF A LIMINAL SHINTOIST CYBERMARXIST: FIVE INTERVIEWS (1987-95, 27,300 words)

 SF and Theatre  Interview with Yamada Kazuko (1987)  SF and History, Cyberpunk, Russia…  Interview with Horst Pukallus (1989)  SF — Literature, Movies, Theatre, Polytheism  Interview with Liao Chao-yang  (1994)  An Interview with Takayuki Tatsumi  (1984)  ’I Have No Soul and … Continue reading

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SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94, 4,270 words)

SCIENCE FICTION: A BASIC SKETCH (1987-94) 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.

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THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93, 6,700 words)

THREE WORLD PARADIGMS FOR SF: ASIMOV, YEFREMOV, LEM (1979-93) 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 15

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LOCUS, HORIZON, AND ORIENTATION:  THE CONCEPT OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AS A KEY TO UTOPIAN STUDIES (1989, 8,260 words)

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ON WILLIAM GIBSON AND CYBERPUNK SF AS UTOPIA VS. IDEOLOGY (1989-91, 6,875 words)

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[WITH MARC ANGENOT] ON ‘POST-MODERNIST’ POLITICAL IMPOTENCE AND THE HORIZONS OF FICTION AND SF: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR FEKETE’S ‘FIVE THESES’ (1988, 4,920 words)

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE (WITH MARC ANGENOT) 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.

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