5 Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. MYTHOPOESIS TO PERFORMANCE FICTIONING
7. A. MYTHOPOESIS : AGAINST CONTROL AND THE FICTION OF THE SELF
8. 1 Mythopoesis, Fabulous Images and Memories of a Sorcerer 11
9. 2 Against Control: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted 29
10. 3 Overcoming the Fiction of the Self 49
11. 4 Mirror Work: Self-Obliteration 63
12. B. PERFORMANCE FICTIONING: PASTS, PRESENTS AND FUTURES
13. 5 Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence 83
14. 6 Future-Past-Presents: Neomedieval Mappae Mundi 103
15. 7 Fictioning the Landscape 125
16. 8 A Journey Through the Ruins of Colonialism 143
17. 9 Scenes as Performance Fictions 155
18. II. MYTH-SCIENCE TO SCIENCE FICTIONING
19. A. MYTH-SCIENCE: PERSPECTIVISM AND ALIENATION AS METHOD
20. 10 Myth-Analysis: Lessons in Enchantment 171
21. 11 Myth-Science: Alien Perspectives 199
22. 12 Afrofuturism, Sonic Fiction and Alienation as Method 217
23. 13 Wildness and Alienation in the Networks of the Digital 235
24. B. SCIENCE FICTIONING: WORLDS AND MODE LS
25. 14 Feminist World-Building and Worlding 253
26. 15 The Inhuman Social Imaginary of Science Fiction 275
27. 16 From Science Fiction to Science Fictioning 295
28. 17 Non-Philosophy and Science Fiction as Method 315
29. III. MYTHOTECHNESIS TO MACHINE FICTIONING
30. A. MYTHOTECHNESIS : PROMETHEAN AND INTELLIGENCE ECONOMIES
31. 18 A Renewed Prometheanism 337
32. 19 The Subject Who Fell to Earth 361
33. 20 Financial Fictions 381
34. 21 Post-Singularity Fictions as Mythotechnesis 397
35. 22 Technofeminisms 417
36. B. MACHINE FICTIONING: ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL LIFE
37. 23 Loops of the Posthuman: Towards Machine Fictioning 433
38. 24 The Radicalisation of Singularity 457
39. 25 By Any Memes Necessary 473
40. 26 Subjects Without a Body 491
41. Afterword 509
42. Bibliography 515
43. Names Index 541
44. Subject Index 553