Darko Suvin

Biographic Data

ID559030
NAMEDarko Suvin
GIVEN NAMESDarko
FAMILY NAMESuvin
SIGNATURESUVIN D
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
ORCID0000-0003-1856-3314
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS90
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT89
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • A long hope: The Prometheus Counter-Project

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLEIlha do Desterro A Journal of…2023

    By offering a reading of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, and of the post-Aeschylus tradition of the myth of Prometheus which highlights its revisions as imagined by Karl Marx and Percy Shelley, among others, this paper seeks to explore how to grasp, amid our danger and despair, the prominent poetic and cognitive view of a similar cataclysm from the past, as a lesson to the present. The route to do so encompasses a revisitation of the connections be…

  • Antiutopianism: An Introduction

    P A Mcmanus, Patricia Mcmanus et al.ARTICLEUtopian Studies2023

    Utopia is endangered today! Such a sentence seems redundant: utopia—the shape of the possibility that things could be better—is always in danger. But the present danger is something distinct from the dangers that historically have attended utopia. These have not gone away but, added to them, and largely superseding utopia’s other perils in our twenty-first century, is the disappearance of utopianism from the culture and politics that dominate our…

  • On Antiutopianism in Pragmatics and Narrative

    Darko SuvinARTICLEUtopian Studies2023References: 3

    This article refurbishes the view of antiutopianism as the ruling orthodoxy of late-capitalist common sense (pragmatics) and writings plus media (narrative). After a half-century descent into a contemporary neofeudalism (Fascism 2.0), the operation of totalized antiutopianism on utopian narrative genres is powerfully evident in the TV series Game of Thrones, a rigidly Social Darwinist fantasy world, reveling in mass slaughters and presupposing ne…

  • Satoh’s Dance of Angels as a Dramaturgical Discourse Seeking and Doubting the Young Generation’s Revolution

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLEImaginations Journal of…2022

    Satoh’s Dance of Angels as a Dramaturgical Discourse Seeking and Doubting the Young Generation’s Revolution. An article from journal Imaginations (Massive/Micro Sensemaking: Towards Post-pandemic Futures), on Érudit

  • On Understanding Our Needy World through Science Fiction and Utopia/nism

    Darko SuvinARTICLEMinnesota Review2021

    How do dominant epistemological frames create political understanding and violence in the public sphere and through cultural texts? This article explores a theoretical answer to this question by identifying narrative categories, or frames, that create shared realities and collective political understanding and action in contemporary antiutopian US culture. Much current public information is marred by the juxtaposition of fact and fiction, logic a…

  • Notes for Illuminating Freedom and Knowledge in Das Kapital: Aristotle, Leibniz, and Spinoza

    Darko SuvinARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2021References: 2

    To understand some central presuppositions of Marx within an anti-scientistic and anti-bourgeois horizon, such as knowledge and freedom, some central elements within Leibniz and Spinosa are discussed, with a glance at Hegel. Capital turns out to be an anti-Leibnizian monad, while Das Kapital is undergirded by a Spinozist value-political treatise

  • Utopia or Bust: Capitalocene, Method, Anti-Utopia

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLEUtopian Studies2021

    In the introduction to the 2015 reprint of her classical Partial Visions, Angelika Bammer cites the pithy injunction of the American poet and feminist thinker Adrienne Rich: “We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth ... the visions, and the thinking necessary to sustain, console, and alter human existence. ... Sexuality, politics, inte…

  • Words and lesions: Epistemological reflections on violence and lessons of the 1968 moment (with particular reference to Japan)

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLECritical Quarterly2020

  • Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four Today: Genius and Tunnel Vision

    Darko SuvinARTICLEHistorical Materialism2020References: 3

    Orwell, as he himself remarked, came from a lower, professional-service fraction of the English and imperial ruling class that was ‘simultaneously dominator and dominated’ (Raymond Williams), so that a combination of state and monopoly power became his abiding nightmare. His horizon was, as of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, a revolutionary socialism committed to freedom and equality, opposed both to Labourite social democracy and to Stalinist pse…

  • Jodi Dean’s Comrade

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2020

    I cannot review this book except in the first person singular, since it intersects with and is of great help to my longstanding efforts to draw a balance sheet of the communist movement, Marxism, a

  • How to Go On: Political Epistemology for Pandemy Times

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2020References: 1

    What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance At keeping its humanity repressed For

  • Thus Spake the Bitter Muse: Do Not Profit by the Blood of Your Fellows

    Darko Suvin, DARKO R SUVINARTICLESocialism and Democracy2020

    With filial greetings to Tanakh prophets, who believed the only copyright resides in the voice that speaks to & through them all. Dedicated to Rich D. Erlich, in poor return for all his counsels

  • Avevamo un classico. Appunti per collocare Predrag Matvejević

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLEStudi Slavistici2018

    This article is a series of passages meditating on a lifetime of memories about the recently deceased Predrag Matvejević, as well as on some of his main writings and themes. Of the books discussed, the first, Prema novom kulturnom stvaralaštvu – written in 1977 as a plea for a “deviant” Left engagement in the wake of Krleža and Sartre, and for a cultural creativity in tandem with self-management – represents his polemical writing inside and for S…

  • Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout: An Epistemological Approach

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2018References: 4

    Only he who builds the future has a right to judge the past. (F. Nietzsche) Les choses pourraient etre autrement. [Things could be otherwise.] (R. Ruyer) We communists. ... Or, in other words: we, fa

  • On the poetics of the science fiction genre

    Darko SuvinCHAPTERScience Fiction Criticism2017

  • Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia

    Darko SuvinBOOKSplendour, Misery, and…2016

    Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are …

  • Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

    Darko Suvin, Gerry CanavanBOOKMetamorphoses of Science Fiction2016

  • Communism Can Only Be Radical Plebeian Democracy: Remarks on the Experience of S. F. R. Yugoslavia and on Civil Society

    Darko SuvinARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2016References: 12

    The essay is divided into approach and two parts plus a short summation. The approach poses the theme of nexus between communism and democracy as the only hope to oppose the present neo-fascist turn of capitalism. Part 1 discusses central political choices after the Yugoslav 1941–45 revolution, focusing on its popular revolutionary horizon as well as on disalienation of labour in workers' self-management, and sketching the history of their achiev…

  • What Is To Be Done? A First Step

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2016References: 2

  • Fifteen theses about communism and Y ugoslavia, or the two‐headed Janus of emancipation through the State: (Metamorphoses and anamorphoses of ‘On the J ewish Q uestion’ by M arx)

    Open AccessDarko SuvinARTICLECritical Quarterly2015

  • The Prescience of Lucio Magri

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2015Cited by: 2

    Magri, born in 1932, was a leading member and, together with Rossana Rossanda, the most prominent theoretician of the Manifesto group which was kicked out of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 19

  • From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology

    Darko SuvinARTICLEDebatte Journal of Contemporary…2013Cited by: 1References: 3

    Of the two relatively independent parts here, Part 1. characterizes at length three phases (early, middle and late) of Marxisms, which were different and usually impoverished takes on Marx. Around 1990 the entire “scientific paradigm” of such Marxism from all three phases crumbled. Marx’s legacy can only be revived by reinstating his insistence on a full and mainly direct democracy. Part 2 deals with the concept and role of the communist party fr…

  • Splendours and Miseries of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1945–74)

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2013Cited by: 1References: 5

  • On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia 1945–1974, with a Hypothesis about the Ruling Class

    Darko SuvinARTICLEDebatte Journal of Contemporary…2012Cited by: 2References: 5

    The essay is divided into an “Introduction to the Concept of Class, ” “Data and Categorizing Classes in Yugoslavia 1945–75” which treats of the working or lower classes, an approach to the ruling class, the “middle classes, ” and women, and ends with “A Hypothesis: The Involution of the Ruling Class.” In the wake of Marx it concludes that a ruling class existed but was for ca. 20 years a class in statu nascendi. It concludes with “An Excursus on …

  • Death into Life: For a Poetics of Anti-Capitalist Alternative

    Darko SuvinARTICLESocialism and Democracy2012References: 6

    Things could be otherwise. – Raymond Ruyer, defining utopia (A counter-project to Xiung Xi-ling) All that we feel is the freezing storm But who is there to grieve for the warmth? As you're leaving