So emptywheel dissects Chris Bowers' post on the rise of the non-fictional aesthetic among the political left, disagreeing with "his characterization of this aesthetic--non-fiction versus fiction," pointing out that fiction is an arbitrary construct . Agreed. If consciousness is defined as one's perception of reality -- and we all know that we can change our perceptions -- then we can change our state of awareness at will. What is fiction if it is defined by one's perception? It's all very fluid. Art -- a fiction and not the thing itself -- imitates the thing itself. Are there not points at which art is become that thing, transcended the divide between the object and the observation of the object? Which leads me to think of that unnamed member of the administration that said they (the administration and/or the neo-cons) created reality and the rest of us would be left study it. Which side of that equation is fiction? The change in our collective progres...
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