Fictioning
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Fictioning

The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

  1. 577 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fictioning

The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

About this book

Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the technics of fictioning through three focal points: mythopoesis, myth-science and mythotechnesis. These relate to three specific modes of fictioning: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning. In this way, Burrows and O'Sullivan explore how fictioning can offer us alternatives to the dominant fictions that construct our reality in an age of 'post-truth' and 'perception management'. Through fictioning, they look forward to the new kinds of human, part-human and non-human bodies and societies to come.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright information
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. I. MYTHOPOESIS TO PERFORMANCE FICTIONING
  9. A. MYTHOPOESIS: AGAINST CONTROL AND THE FICTION OF THE SELF
  10. 1 Mythopoesis, Fabulous Images and Memories of a Sorcerer
  11. 2 Against Control: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted
  12. 3 Overcoming the Fiction of the Self
  13. 4 Mirror Work: Self-Obliteration
  14. B. PERFORMANCE FICTIONING: PASTS, PRESENTS AND FUTURES
  15. 5 Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence
  16. 6 Future-Past-Presents: Neomedieval Mappae Mundi
  17. 7 Fictioning the Landscape
  18. 8 A Journey Through the Ruins of Colonialism
  19. 9 Scenes as Performance Fictions
  20. II. MYTH-SCIENCE TO SCIENCE FICTIONING
  21. A. MYTH-SCIENCE: PERSPECTIVISM AND ALIENATION AS METHOD
  22. 10 Myth-Analysis: Lessons in Enchantment
  23. 11 Myth-Science: Alien Perspectives
  24. 12 Afrofuturism, Sonic Fiction and Alienation as Method
  25. 13 Wildness and Alienation in the Networks of the Digital
  26. B. SCIENCE FICTIONING: WORLDS AND MODELS
  27. 14 Feminist World-Building and Worlding
  28. 15 The Inhuman Social Imaginary of Science Fiction
  29. 16 From Science Fiction to Science Fictioning
  30. 17 Non-Philosophy and Science Fiction as Method
  31. III. MYTHOTECHNESIS TO MACHINE FICTIONING
  32. A. MYTHOTECHNESIS: PROMETHEAN AND INTELLIGENCE ECONOMIES
  33. 18 A Renewed Prometheanism
  34. 19 The Subject Who Fell to Earth
  35. 20 Financial Fictions
  36. 21 Post-Singularity Fictions as Mythotechnesis
  37. 22 Technofeminisms
  38. B. MACHINE FICTIONING: ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL LIFE
  39. 23 Loops of the Posthuman: Towards Machine Fictioning
  40. 24 The Radicalisation of Singularity
  41. 25 By Any Memes Necessary
  42. 26 Subjects Without a Body
  43. Afterword
  44. Bibliography
  45. Names Index
  46. Subject Index