Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

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