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

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LOOKING BACKWARD AT AND FORWARD FROM THE NOVUM: FRIENDLY OR INIMICAL TO LIFE? (2023, 7.530 words)

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CAPITALOCENE, CORONISATION, SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY: THREE HYPOTHESES ABOUT TRUE VS. FALSE NAMES (2021, 2080 words)

Paper for the IIPPE conference 2021, 2,080 words

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

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)

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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THE USE OF LUCIO MAGRI (2014, 3,290 words)

Magri, Lucio. The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century, translated by Patrick Camiller (London: Verso, 2011). Magri, born 1932, was a leading member of the Manifesto group which was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in … Continue reading

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CAPITALISM MEANS/NEEDS WAR (1998-2001)

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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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