science fiction
I became a bit unruly at a dinner party recently when my hostess asserted that science fiction was “license to just do anything you want, no rules”. I guess it’s a common enough bit...
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“…scientific and philosophical writing is seen to be just as fictional as is poetry and the novel…” (Flusser, “The Gesture of Writing”)
Plausible Fictions
Suppose photographing is, as Flusser contended, an act of projecting, rather than “capturing” extant meaning. Rather than constituting records, then, photographs propose possibilities, sometimes in tremendously persuasive detail. Photographs are what comes of reaching...