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.

WHERE ARE WE? HOW DID WE GET HERE? IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?:  OR, NEWS FROM THE NOVUM (1997-98, 16,430 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin
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TWO CHEERS FOR ESSENTIALISM AND TOTALITY: ON MARX’S OSCILLATION AND ITS LIMITS (AS WELL AS ON THE TABOOS OF POST-MODERNISM (1997, 8,570 words)

Posted on 25 May 1997 by darkosuvin

A revisitation of Marx, accepting demystification and critique but repudiating “progress” in favour of multi-causality and open ends, and arguing for a carefully delimited (historical) use of essence and of an epistemological or hermeneutic but not an ontological totality.

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POLITY OR DISASTER: FROM INDIVIDUALIST SELF TOWARD PERSONAL VALENCIES AND COLLECTIVE SUBJECT (1994-96, 23,790 words)

Posted on 1 July 1996 by darkosuvin

0. Stance, Constituency, Epistemology; 1. Subject as Social Allegory vs. Self as Interiority and the Pivot Formulation of Descartes; 2. Deconstruction: Hello and Goodbye; 3. To Position a Survivable Polity, Non-Interiority, Valencies for Subjectivity; 4. Briefly, On  Body Politics; 5. … Continue reading →

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THE SOUL AND THE SENSE: MEDITATIONS ON ROLAND BARTHES ON JAPAN (A PROPOS OF THE EMPIRE OF SIGNS) (1990-96, 16,200 words)

Posted on 28 May 1996 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                                                (1990-96, 16,200 words)                   … Continue reading →

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ON COGNITIVE EMOTIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL IMAGINATION  (1995, 16,360 words)

Posted on 28 May 1995 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading →

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REVELATION VS. CONFLICT: DEITY VS. WARRIOR Nô PLAYS AND COMPARATIVE DRAMATURGY (1994, 16,200 words)

Posted on 30 September 1994 by darkosuvin
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THE USE-VALUE OF DYING: MAGICAL VS. COGNITIVE UTOPIAN DESIRE IN THE”LEARNING PLAYS” OF PSEUDO-ZENCHIKU, WALEY, AND BRECHT (1991, 19,350 words)

Posted on 27 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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LOCUS, HORIZON, AND ORIENTATION:  THE CONCEPT OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AS A KEY TO UTOPIAN STUDIES (1989, 8,260 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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ON WILLIAM GIBSON AND CYBERPUNK SF AS UTOPIA VS. IDEOLOGY (1989-91, 6,875 words)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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POEMS OF DOUBT AND HOPE 1983-88 (2,325 words)

Posted on 9 April 1993 by darkosuvin

a/ 12 Diary Poems of the Mid-1980s

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