Fictocritical Strategies

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.

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.