List of Figures Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section I. Mythopoesis to Performance Fictioning

A. Mythopoesis: Against Control and the Fiction of the Self

1. Mythopoesis, Fabulous Images and Memories of a Sorcerer

2. Against Control: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

3. Overcoming the Fiction of the Self

4. Mirror Work: Self-Obliteration

B. Performance Fictioning: Pasts, Presents and Futures

5. Residual Culture and the Magical Mode of Existence

6. Future-Past-Presents: Neomedieval Mappae Mundi

7. Fictioning the Landscape

8. A Journey through the Ruins of Colonialism

9. Scenes as Performance Fictions

Section II. Myth-Science to Science Fictioning

A. Myth-Science: Perspectivism and Alienation as Method

10. Myth-Analysis: Lessons in Enchantment

11. Myth-Science: Alien Perspectives

12. Afrofuturism, Sonic Fiction and Alienation as Method

13. Wildness and Alienation in the Networks of the Digital

B. Science Fictioning: Worlds and Models

14. Feminist World Building and Worlding

15. The Inhuman Social Imaginary of Science Fiction

16. From Science Fiction to Science Fictioning

17. Non-Philosophy and Science Fiction as Method

Section III. Mythotechnesis to Machine Fictioning

A. Mythotechnesis: Promethean and Intelligence Economies

18. A Renewed Prometheanism

19. The Subject Who Fell to Earth

20. Financial Fictions

21. Post-Singularity Fictions as Mythotechnesis

22. Technofeminisms

B. Machine Fictioning: Analogue and Digital Life

23. Loops of the Posthuman: Towards Machine Fictioning

24. The Radicalisation of Singularity

25. By Any Memes Necessary

26. Subjects Without a Body

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Fictioning

The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy