Publication

2019 - Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Word Count

144,000 words, Guess

Page Count

576 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781474432405
  • ISBN-101474432409
  • OCLC Control Number1085969808
  • Better World Books9781474432405
  • Open LibraryOL29401208M

Classifications

  • LCCN66
  • LCCN70 .B87 2019

Description

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 relae 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

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and PhilosophyEdinburgh University Press2019-01-01

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!