Tag Archives: epistemology

Prometheus and the Long Hope (2023, 14,500 words)

Posted on 3 December 2023 by darkosuvin
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LOOKING BACKWARD AT AND FORWARD FROM THE NOVUM: FRIENDLY OR INIMICAL TO LIFE? (2023, 7.530 words)

Posted on 25 October 2023 by darkosuvin
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CAPITALOCENE, CORONISATION, SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY: THREE HYPOTHESES ABOUT TRUE VS. FALSE NAMES (2021, 2080 words)

Posted on 5 August 2022 by darkosuvin

Paper for the IIPPE conference 2021, 2,080 words

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PARABLES AND USES OF A STUMBLING STONE (2017, 11,880 words)

Posted on 13 April 2017 by darkosuvin

THE AUTHOR HASN’T UPLOADED THIS PAPER. THOSE INTERESTED CAN WRITE AND REQUEST IT (SEE CONTACT AT BOTTOM OR WRITE dsuvin@gmail.com) Darko Suvin                                                                   […]

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AN APPROACH TO EPISTEMOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND THE POET’S POLITICS — VOL. 41 (2016, 8500 words)

Posted on 9 June 2016 by darkosuvin

My presupposition is that the common sense or doxa we inherited from High Modernism has failed in, and because of, Post-Modernism and the Post-Fordist triumph of predatory capitalism. This would include the mass misuse of modern sciences in wars and … Continue reading →

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COMMUNISM AND YUGOSLAVIA, OR THE TWO-HEADED JANUS OF EMANCIPATION THROUGH THE STATE: 15 THESES (2011, 8,710 words)

Posted on 29 May 2011 by darkosuvin
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FANTASY AS CRITIQUE AND COGNITION: MARX’S BLACK METAMORPHOSES OF LIVING LABOUR (2006, 3,200 words)

Posted on 9 August 2006 by darkosuvin

C. Bordoni ed., Linee d’ombra: letture del fantastico in onore di Romolo Runcini. Pellegrini Discussion of possible uses of Fantasy on texts of MArx, written 2003-05 (3,200 words)

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CAPITALISM MEANS/NEEDS WAR (1998-2001)

Posted on 10 February 2001 by darkosuvin
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LUKÁCS: HORIZONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE “TYPICAL CHARACTER” (1986, 12,700 words)

Posted on 29 May 1986 by darkosuvin

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)

Posted on 26 February 1985 by darkosuvin
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