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.

REFLECTIONS ON AND AT A TANGENT FROM “Bertolt Brecht und der Kommunismus” (2008, 3,500 words)

Posted on 20 May 2008 by darkosuvin
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INSIDE THE WHALE, OR ETSI COMMUNISMUS NON DARETUR (2006-07, 9,800 words)

Posted on 26 May 2007 by darkosuvin

Reflections on How o Live When Communism Is a Necessity but Nowhere on the Horizon

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SOME DIFFERENTIATIONS WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF “MYTH” (2007, 2,950 words)

Posted on 25 May 2007 by darkosuvin

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 →

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IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE TODAY: APARTHEID OR CIVIL COHABITATION? (2006-07, 11,510 words)

Posted on 25 May 2007 by darkosuvin

0. Introduction; 1. Changes in Mass Displacements: Are Non-Citizens People?; 2. Criteria and Value-Orientations: A Possible Epistemologico-Political Alternative: 2.1. Epistemology: Images of People’s Life, 2.2. Toward Politics: A Right to Citizenship as a Human Right; 3. Some Prospects for Civil … Continue reading →

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THE ARRESTED MOMENT IN BENJAMIN’S “THESES ON HISTORY”: EPISTEMOLOGY VS. POLITICS, IMAGE VS. STORY (1999-2007, 10,470 words)

Posted on 25 May 2007 by darkosuvin

THE INTELLECTUAL’S SEEING AND DOING; 1. INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS, IMAGES AND STRUCTURE (genre, images as method, figural tableaux); 2. ANALYZING “CH” (division, grouping); 3. TIME AND HISTORY, IMAGE AND STORY (refusing the future and stories, arrested moment)

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FIVE FAREWELL FANTASIES OF 2006-08 [POEMS] (1,010 words)

Posted on 9 August 2006 by darkosuvin
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ON U.K. LE GUIN’S “SECOND EARTHSEA TRILOGY” AND ITS COGNITIONS: A COMMENTARY* (2006, 8,200)

Posted on 26 May 2006 by darkosuvin

Abstract: Chapter in D. Suvin. Disputing the Deluge: C21 Writings on Utopia, Narration, Horizons of Survival.  Ed. Hugh O’Connell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 1. The Creation of Ea(rthsea), Twice; 2. Tehanu: What Happens to Tenar; 3. “The Finder”: The Theory of Earthly Politics; … Continue reading →

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FROM MALLARMÉ’S PURIFICATION TO KONG FU-TSE’S RECTIFICATION OF TERMS: PICTURES FROM AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION (2006, 5,500 WORDS)

Posted on 25 May 2006 by darkosuvin

Contemporanea no. 6 , 2008 Epistemological discussion of the terms power and conflict based on a poem by Mallarmé and a fragment of Confucius.

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A TRACTATE ON DYSTOPIA 2001 (2001/2006, 9,440 words)

Posted on 24 May 2006 by darkosuvin
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SEVEN POEMS FROM THE UTOPIAN HOLLOW: DIARY NOTES OF 2000–2005 (915 words)

Posted on 7 April 2005 by darkosuvin
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