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.

LOCUS, HORIZON, AND ORIENTATION:  THE CONCEPT OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AS A KEY TO UTOPIAN STUDIES (1989, 8,260 words)

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ON WILLIAM GIBSON AND CYBERPUNK SF AS UTOPIA VS. IDEOLOGY (1989-91, 6,875 words)

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POEMS OF DOUBT AND HOPE 1983-88 (2,325 words)

a/ 12 Diary Poems of the Mid-1980s

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TWO INTERVENTIONS ON BODIES (1989, 7,800 words)

Discourses about the body are followed through Bakhtin, Hobbes, Freud, and Foucault to an updating of Marxism, arguing against bourgeois individualism that subject is a limit-zone of collective bodies. A viable materialist but dialectical theory of the body, and consequently … Continue reading

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LUKÁCS: HORIZONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE “TYPICAL CHARACTER” (1986, 12,700 words)

A reconsideration of Lukàcs on  agents (type)  in literature as an instance of his horizons. Sections. On Narrative Agents,The Two Overviews of the Novel, Balzac and French Realism, Lukács’s Teleology, An Assessment.

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CAN PEOPLE BE (RE)PRESENTED IN FICTION?: TOWARDS A THEORY OF NARRATIVE AGENTS AND A MATERIALIST   CRITIQUE BEYOND TECHNOCRACY OR REDUCTIONISM (1985, 14,800 words)

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TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF PRODUCTION AND CREATION: METAMORPHIC IMAGERY IN THE GRUNDRISSE (1981, 7,050 words)

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SCIENCE AND MARXISM, SCIENTISM AND MARQUIT (1978, 5,250 words)

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SCIENCE FICTION AND THE NOVUM (1977, 8,830 words)

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“UTOPIAN” AND “SCIENTIFIC”: TWO ATTRIBUTES FOR SOCIALISM FROM ENGELS (1976, 5,500 WORDS)

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