Category Archives: 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
COMMUNISM AND YUGOSLAVIA, OR THE TWO-HEADED JANUS OF EMANCIPATION THROUGH THE STATE: 15 THESES (2011, 8,710 words)
DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS (2011) [Book Partly]
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
(With Lomeña) AN INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2011, 1,050 words)
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
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