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.

ON COGNITION AS ART AND POLITICS: REFLECTIONS FOR A TOOLKIT (1997-99, 16,200 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin
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UTOPIANISM FROM ORIENTATION TO AGENCY:  WHAT ARE WE INTELLECTUALS UNDER POST-FORDISM TO DO?  (1997-98, 17,395 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin
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ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND PRAGMATICS OF INTERCULTURAL THEATRE STUDIES: WITH BROOK’S “MAHABHARATA” AS NEGATIVE EXEMPLUM (1997-98, 11,640 words)

Posted on 15 April 1998 by darkosuvin

1. Syntactic Considerations; 2. Epistemic Considerations: Monadic Truth vs. Caressing; 3. Interculturalism I: The Mythical Estrangement of Brook’s “Mahabharata” exemplum; 4. Interculturalism II: Critical Estrangement, the Body

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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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