Fictioning : The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy /: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Burrows, Simon O'Sullivan.
• Authors: Burrows, David; O'Sullivan, Simon
• Contents: List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 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; Section 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; Section 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; Index. List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction Section 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 Section 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 Section 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 Index.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (576 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474432429
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