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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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.
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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