Fictioning
The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2019
576 pages
978-1-4744-3241-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. MYTHOPOESIS TO PERFORMANCE FICTIONING
- A. MYTHOPOESIS: AGAINST CONTROL AND THE FICTION OF THE SELF
- 1 Mythopoesis, Fabulous Images and Memories of a Sorcerer
- 2 Against Control: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted
- 3 Overcoming the Fiction of the Self
- 4 Mirror Work: Self-Obliteration
- B. PERFORMANCE FICTIONING: PASTS, PRESENTS AND FUTURES
- 5 Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence
- 6 Future-Past-Presents: Neomedieval Mappae Mundi
- 7 Fictioning the Landscape
- 8 A Journey Through the Ruins of Colonialism
- 9 Scenes as Performance Fictions
- II. MYTH-SCIENCE TO SCIENCE FICTIONING
- A. MYTH-SCIENCE: PERSPECTIVISM AND ALIENATION AS METHOD
- 10 Myth-Analysis: Lessons in Enchantment
- 11 Myth-Science: Alien Perspectives
- 12 Afrofuturism, Sonic Fiction and Alienation as Method
- 13 Wildness and Alienation in the Networks of the Digital
- B. SCIENCE FICTIONING: WORLDS AND MODELS
- 14 Feminist World-Building and Worlding
- 15 The Inhuman Social Imaginary of Science Fiction
- 16 From Science Fiction to Science Fictioning
- 17 Non-Philosophy and Science Fiction as Method
- III. MYTHOTECHNESIS TO MACHINE FICTIONING
- A. MYTHOTECHNESIS: PROMETHEAN AND INTELLIGENCE ECONOMIES
- 18 A Renewed Prometheanism
- 19 The Subject Who Fell to Earth
- 20 Financial Fictions
- 21 Post-Singularity Fictions as Mythotechnesis
- 22 Technofeminisms
- B. MACHINE FICTIONING: ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL LIFE
- 23 Loops of the Posthuman: Towards Machine Fictioning
- 24 The Radicalisation of Singularity
- 25 By Any Memes Necessary
- 26 Subjects Without a Body
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Names Index
- Subject Index
