Fictioning : : The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy /

Fictioning : : The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy / / David Burrows, Simon O'Sullivan.

Maps out the practice of fictioning as a new field of study for art and philosophyFictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate new modes of existence. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diag...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Burrows, David,
O'Sullivan, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.) :; 86 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 MODE LS
  • 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

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