If I'm understanding you right, yes. Aside from some on the first page, I've tried to stay away from regular philosophical novels (novels with an explicit philosophical message), and toward texts where the theory informs both the content and structure. Two good examples are ...
... Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" (in which wordplay gives hybrid meanings to a text about human-machine-nature mixtures) or Ballard's "Atrocity Exhibition" (which spoofs our media-obsessed culture so well that one chapter was mistaken for a real report by Reagan's election team)
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The point being that any work of theory (or philosophy, etc.) is also a piece of writing, and creative choices were made in its construction. In this sense, all writing is fiction to some extent. Theory-fiction meets the two terms halfway, and doesn't try to hide its artifice.
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Do you have a source for the Reagan confusion? I searched for a bit, but the results are obviously quite muddy because of the existence of "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan".
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It comes from Ballard himself. This is from his commentary on the chapter:pic.twitter.com/HB7mbtD18N
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Ah, tremendous
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