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Philosphical Fiction, Fictional Philosophy, and Everything in Between

The FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: As in the fiction-of-crime, the category
encompasses both `philosophical fiction' and that aspect of
philosophy which encounters fiction as a mode of inquiry.
Philosophical fiction would include the novels of Bataille, Ballard,
Gibson, Sartre; works of Jabes, Michaux, Lautreamont, Karl Kraus;
poetry of Lucretius, Susan Howe, Holderlin; the philosophical
micro-narratives of Baudrillard, Nietzsche, and Barthes; Lingis'
exhilerated accounts of the other/gender, Kathy Acker's
deconstruction of sexualities and politics, and other
writers/writings too numerous to mention...

WHY THIS LIST? Because "creative" and theoretic writing are inter-
woven yet distanced by the history of faculties, and because new
formations carry the possibilities of new modes of thinking through
our overheated postmodern cultural terrain.

The list has as goals both the discussion of the
FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY in general or in reference to specific authors;
and the presentation of creative work that may bear on current issues
of theory.

FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: FOP, defined in the older Roget: "...swell,
dandy, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, man about town, spark, popinjay,
puppy, prig, jackanapes, carpet knight, dude" - extended into
situationist, raconteur, flaneur... existing-between, passing for
the _other,_ the spy in the house of love who came in from the cold.

The threads on the list might include presentations and discussions
of creative work by the participants, cross-postings addressing rele-
vant issues, discussions/critiques/group readings of specific
literary works, and discussions of more general issues ranging from
the inter- face between poetry and philosophy, to the narratology of
the site of writing-philosophy (Heidegger's forest, Jabes' desert,
Ballard's high- way).

This list is open to everyone interested in philosophy and theory, on
any level.

FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY is brought to you by the Spoon Collective, a
group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of literary
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