Category Archives: 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

THIS IS A DESCENDING CHRONOLOGICAL LIST, FROM 2021 BACKWARDS. REASON: ALL POSITIONS ARE HISTORICAL, AND THEY ARE BEST UNDERSTOOD IN CONNEXION WITH ITS MOMENT. LATER ENTRIES MAY MODIFY EARLIER POSITIONS.

(with Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS (2014-15, 18,700 words)

Posted on 25 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Interview with SB on Formalism vs. class history in culture, especially in Yugoslavia 1945-65, also in general.

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WHERE ARE WE: AND A RADICAL WAY OUT (2015, 5,930 words)

Posted on 23 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                          2nd version … Continue reading →

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FROM THE ARCHEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND COMMUNISM (2009-2015, 16000 words)

Posted on 23 May 2015 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin (2013) “From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology”, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 21:2-3, 279-311, , 2013 Of the two relatively independent parts here, Part 1. characterizes at length three … Continue reading →

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THE USE OF LUCIO MAGRI (2014, 3,290 words)

Posted on 15 April 2014 by darkosuvin

Magri, Lucio. The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century, translated by Patrick Camiller (London: Verso, 2011). Magri, born 1932, was a leading member of the Manifesto group which was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in … Continue reading →

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ON U.K. LE GUIN’S SPEECH AT NAT. BOOK AWARDS (2014, 1,860 words)

Posted on 5 February 2014 by darkosuvin

A/ URSULA K. LE GUIN, SPEECH [AT NAT. BOOK AWARDS 2014] B/ ON LE GUIN AND HER DECLARATION OF THE ARTS’ INDEPENDENCE FROM CAPITALISM [DS COMMENT ON HER SPEECH] A/ The Guardian, 20 November 2014 22.00 GMT   Ursula K … Continue reading →

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(With Federico Pianzola) FORMS OPEN TO LIFE (2013, 8,640 words)

Posted on 28 December 2013 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin, interviewed by Federico Pianzola FORMS OPEN TO LIFE (2013)                              (8,640 words) [FP] In this conversation I would like to move from the general to the particular and although I am aware that you have implicitly or explicitly … Continue reading →

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Erkenntnis: KEYSTONES FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGY (11 THESES AND 1 INDICATION) (2012, 2,950 words)

Posted on 23 May 2012 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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COMMUNISM AND YUGOSLAVIA, OR THE TWO-HEADED JANUS OF EMANCIPATION THROUGH THE STATE: 15 THESES (2011, 8,710 words)

Posted on 29 May 2011 by darkosuvin
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DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS (2011) [Book Partly]

Posted on 25 January 2011 by darkosuvin

TABLE OF CONTENTS [Paradoxa no. 23] Darko Suvin: A Life in Letters A. Introductory Foreword: Crossing the Border with Darko Suvin by Phillip E. Wegner …………………………………………………..9 1. Introduction (2010) …………………………………………………..21 2. Autobiography 2004: De Darci Natura ………………………..29 B. Meeting Other … Continue reading →

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(With Lomeña) AN INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2011, 1,050 words)

Posted on 13 January 2011 by darkosuvin

Andrés Lomeña AL: I would like to locate your ideological position in literary theory. I suppose that you feel close to Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson (even Slavoj Žižek). Moreover, I suppose that you disagree with aesthetic purism (Harold Bloom) or certain relativisms … Continue reading →

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