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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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.
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.
