Double Take: "Cognitive Estrangement" Reconsidered from the Perspective of Marx's Value Theory. Issue 3 (1st December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Warwick, Harry
• Is Part Of: Extrapolation. Volume 63:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 273
• Page End: 296
• Publication Date: 2022-12-01
• Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Science fiction -- Bibliography -- Periodicals; Science fiction; Bibliography; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 809.38762
• DOI: 10.3828/extr.2022.17
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-5483

Abstract

Abstract : This article re-examines Darko Suvin's concept of "cognitive estrangement." Unlike the various criticisms of Suvin's formulation that, charging it with inconsistency, seek to articulate a still purer Suvinism than Suvin himself managed, I propose that alternative definitions of those terms are implicit in Marx's analysis of the value-form in Capital (1867–1894). The article thus reconstructs a Marxian "cognitive estrangement"; identifies its divergences from Viktor Shklovsky's and Suvin's conceptions; and, concluding with a reading of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974), clarifies the practical differences the Marxian theorization entails in the act of interpretation itself.