Ficto / Critical Strategies : Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation

Haas, Gerrit

ISBN 10: 3837637042 / ISBN 13: 9783837637045

Published by transcript publishing, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ficto / Critical Strategies : Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation
• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837637042
• ISBN 13: 9783837637045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.

About the Author

Gerrit Haas was awarded a joint PhD from FU Berlin and UWA. His post-doctoral research interests comprise constellations, hacking literature, and discursive iconicity. Born and bred in Düsseldorf, he currently lives and works in Berlin.