Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

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In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the process of fictioning in contemporary art through three focal points: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning. 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