Category Archives: 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
THUS SPAKE THE BITTER MUSE (poem 2009, 2,250 words)
See also in Poems Abstract: Long poem in the denunciatory style of the Tanakh prophets, somewhat Hellenised. Repeated line and conclusion: “Do not profit by the blood of your fellows”. Keywords: Muse, Mammon, justice, death First published in Socialism & … Continue reading
TOWARD AN ECONOMICS OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL NEGENTROPY (2009, 5,600 words)
Proceedings of the Herakleion 2010 IIPPE Conference, 2010 This work was written for a conference of Leftwing economists IIPPE in Crete 2010 and first published on their site. It is about the relation of official income as measured by the … Continue reading
DEATH INTO LIFE: FOR A POETICS OF ANTI-CAPITALIST ALTERNATIVE (2009, 5900 words)
Socialism & Democracy 26.2 (July 2012): 91-106, 2012 A prosimetrum — mixture of six convergent sections each having one short poem and one piece of essayistic or argumentative prose. Part 1: the ice age of catastrophic capitalist economy, whose purpose … Continue reading
ON THE HORIZONS OF EPISTEMOLOGY AND SCIENCE (2009, 14,360 words)
Darko Suvin … Continue reading
INSIDE THE WHALE, OR ETSI COMMUNISMUS NON DARETUR (2006-07, 9,800 words)
Reflections on How o Live When Communism Is a Necessity but Nowhere on the Horizon
SOME DIFFERENTIATIONS WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF “MYTH” (2007, 2,950 words)
R. Littlejohns and S. Soncini eds., Myths of Europe. Rodopi. , 2007 This brief overview is divided into sections: 1.1 Approaching “myth” and its divergent, indeed incompatible meanings; discussing first (in 1.2) Cassirer: all creative thought is myth; then (in … Continue reading