Fictioning

The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

By: David Burrows, Simon O'Sullivan

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Paperback | 28 February 2019

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560 Pages

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Maps out the practice of fictioning as a new field of study for art and philosophy

Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate new modes of existence. 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, they 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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'Reading "Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy" has brought me great joy ... Deleuzian scholars, historians and theorists of the avant-garde, postcolonial and feminist theorists, theorists of the posthuman, artists and occultists will, among others, all find something of value here' --Lilly Markaki, Royal Holloway, University of London, LSE Review of Books. '"Fictioning" here alludes to "an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate new modes of existence" and thus not to fiction writing per se, but the book turns out to be just as unputdownable as the best novel you can lay your hands on, or as hypnotic as Plastique Fantasique's tunes for that matter.' --Edith Doove, Leonardo Reviews. 'This is a book about loops, the fictional and the real, the virtual and the actual, the past that never was and the people yet to come -- and how to occupy them, to live in the in-between, summon demons, talk to cats, compose new temporalities, all in the name of building a future so alien that none of us could even imagine what it might be like.' --Laboria Cuboniks.

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