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Fictioning : the myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy / David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan.
LIBRA N70 .B87 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burrows, David, 1965 October 14- author.
- O'Sullivan, Simon, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Fictions, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 562 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- I Mythopoesis To Performance Fictioning
- A Mythopoesis: Against Control and the Fiction of the Self
- 1 Mythopoesis, Fabulous Images and Memories of a Sorcerer p. 15
- 2 Against Control: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted p. 29
- 3 Overcoming the Fiction of the Self p. 49
- 4 Mirror Work: Self-Obliteration p. 63
- B Performance Fictioning: Pasts, Presents and Futures
- 5 Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence p. 85
- 6 Future-Past-Presents: Neomedieval Mappae Mundi p. 103
- 7 Fictioning the Landscape p. 125
- 8 A Journey Through the Ruins of Colonialism p. 143
- 9 Scenes as Performance Fictions p. 155
- II Myth-Science To Science Fictioning
- A Myth-Science: Perspectivism and Alienation as Method
- 10 Myth-Analysis: Lessons in Enchantment p. 175
- 11 Myth-Science: Alien Perspectives p. 199
- 12 Afrofuturism, Sonic Fiction and Alienation as Method p. 217
- 13 Wildness and Alienation in the Networks of the Digital p. 235
- B Science Fictioning: Worlds and Models
- 14 Feminist World-Building and Worlding p. 255
- 15 The Inhuman Social Imaginary of Science Fiction p. 275
- 16 From Science Fiction to Science Fictioning p. 295
- 17 Non-Philosophy and Science Fiction as Method p. 315
- III Mythotechnesis To Machine Fictioning
- A Mythotechnesis: Promethean and Intelligence Economies
- 18 A Renewed Prometheanism p. 341
- 19 The Subject Who Fell to Earth p. 361
- 20 Financial Fictions p. 381
- 21 Post-Singularity Fictions as Mythotechnesis p. 397
- 22 Technofeminisms p. 417
- B Machine Fictioning: Analogue and Digital Life
- 23 Loops of the Posthuman: Towards Machine Fictioning p. 435
- 24 The Radicalisation of Singularity p. 457
- 25 By Any Memes Necessary p. 473
- 26 Subjects Without a Body p. 491.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781474432399
- 1474432395
- 9781474432405
- 1474432409
- OCLC:
- 1085969808
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