David Burrows, Simon O'Sullivan

Fictioning (eBook, PDF)

The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the technics of fictioning through three focal points: mythopoesis, myth-science and mythotechnesis. These relate to three specific modes of fictioning: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning. In this way, Burrows and O'Sullivan explore how fictioning can offer us alternatives to the dominant fictions that construct our reality in an age of 'post-truth' and 'perception management'. Through fictioning, they look forward to the new kinds of human, part-human and non-human bodies and societies to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474432412
• Artikelnr.: 72431494

Autorenporträt

David Burrows is Reader in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has contributed to a number of book projects and his exhibitions include Micro/Macro: British Art 1996-2002, Mucsanok, Budapest (2003); Take Me With You, Circulo des Bellas Artes, Madrid/Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2006); All Over the New Smart, FA Projects, London (2008); Waving From Afar, Star Space, Shanghai (2009); The Diagram Banner Repeater, London/Torna, Istanbul (2011); In Outer Space There is No Painting and Sculpture, Summerhall, Edinburgh (2014); The Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2014). Simon O'Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmith College, London. He is the author of the monographs On the Production of Subjectivity: Five Diagrams of the Finite-Infinite Relation (Palgrave, 2012) and Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (Palgrave, 2005), and is co-editor (with Henriette Gunkel and Ayesha Hameed) of Futures and Fictions (Repeater, 2017) and (with Stephen Zepke) of both Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (Continuum, 2008) and Deleuze and Contemporary Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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