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Author Burrows, David, 1965 October 14- author.

Title Fictioning : the myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy / David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan.

Publication Info. Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 562 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Mythopoesis to Performing Fictioning: A. Mythopoesis: Against control and the fiction of the self -- B. Performance fictioning: pasts, presents and futures -- II. Myth-Science To Science Fictioning: A. Myth-Science: Perspectivism and alienation as method -- B. Science Fictioning: worlds and models -- III. Mythotechnesis to Machine Fictioning: A. Mythotechnesis: Promethean and Intelligence Economies -- B. Machine Fictioning: Analogue and Digital Life -- Afterword
Summary 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, 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. - from book jacket
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Subject Art -- Philosophy.
Art -- Philosophy.
Fictions, Theory of.
Fictions, Theory of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author O'Sullivan, Simon, 1967- author.
Added Title Myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy
Other Form: Print version: Burrows, David, 1965 October 14- Fictioning. Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 9781474432399 (OCoLC)1085969808
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