A Theory-Fiction Reading List 2.0: Now with more titles, attempts at sub-divisions, and fewer misspellings.pic.twitter.com/HThnNKmKz4
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How did you come across Kamo No Chōmei? It seems like it is the only Far East Asian literature you have listed.
From memory, it was recommended in the first thread. Ugetsu Monogatari is also on there (thanks @LaniAlden!), although you're right that the list is strongly skewed toward Western literature.
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Maybe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber … Though I am not sure where it would be placed on the theory-fiction continuum.
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Possibly somewhere in the fiction-as-theory camp. It also just occurred to me that the Zhuangzi is a notable absence on the theory-as-fiction list. I guess I'll have to start on List 3.0.
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Yes Zhuangzi definitely theory as fiction. Yijing/I-Ching perhaps have some poetic(ness) to its theories...
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If I were to give a strict definition of theory-fiction, I would (following Fisher) restrict it to the era of late capitalism. The main reason for including earlier books was one of genealogy: Lucretius, Nietzsche, and Kafka all feed into the CCRU milieu that birthed the concept.
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I think you’re right to frame it as a “rediscovery” — which is also the key to its generative function — theory-fiction has arisen out of a boredom with academic theory, and this retrospection affirms that thought has never needed the tired norms of “Theory” to be theoretical.
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