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EPISTEMOLOGICAL MEDITATIONS ON SCIENCE, NARRATION/POETRY, AND POLITICS (2015, 7,300 words)
1. Central Orientation Points for Epistemology: For a “Soft” Skepticism; 2. Cognition Is Constituted by and as History: Life-destroying and Life-preserving Science; 3. Narrations in Science and Fiction: 3.21. On Pragmatic Anchorage, 3.22. On Porous Boundaries between Form and Actuality; … Continue reading
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A FIRST STEP (2015, 9,800 words)
Where We Are; 2. Who Are We (Proletarians, Plebeians Today)?; 3. Decolonising the Mind; 4. Neither With You nor Without You: On an Anti-capitalist Political Party in the 2010s; 5. What Now?: Initial Proposals
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COMMUNISM CAN ONLY BE RADICAL PLEBEIAN DEMOCRACY: REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF S.F.R. YUGOSLAVIA AND ON CIVIL SOCIETY (2015, 13,500 words)
International Critical Thought 6.2 (2016): 165-89., 2016 The essay is divided into approach and two parts plus a short summation. The approach poses the theme of nexus between communism and democracy as the only hope to oppose the present neo-fascist … Continue reading
(with Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS (2014-15, 18,700 words)
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)
Darko Suvin 2nd version … Continue reading
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FROM THE ARCHEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND COMMUNISM (2009-2015, 16000 words)
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)
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
ON U.K. LE GUIN’S SPEECH AT NAT. BOOK AWARDS (2014, 1,860 words)
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
(With Federico Pianzola) FORMS OPEN TO LIFE (2013, 8,640 words)
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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