Fictioning :: the myth-functions of contemporary 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 t...

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Main Authors: Burrows, David, 1965 October 14- (Author), O'Sullivan, Simon, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 562 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781474432412
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