5. Fiction vs. reality
The self as a fiction
Reality = fiction
The self = real
‘new novels – like the abovementioned 10:04, The Wallcreeper, and My
Struggle – are redistributing the relation between the self and fiction.
Fiction is no longer seen as “false” or “lies” or “make-believe.”’
6. Autofiction:
‘using fiction in the service
of a search for the self’
Image [&] Narrative 19
(2007):
‘the line between the
fictive and non-fictive
would be erased’
‘the constant intrusion of a
narrator’
13. Personal writing online (Hayton, 2009):
‘at the same time public and private, professional
and amateur, at once formal and informal’
‘a journey, a trial’
‘musings, thoughts, throwaway language’
‘shared, personal, authentic’
The reader is a confidant, a conspirator; the author is
not identified biographically as much as ‘personally’.
17. Automatic writing, autobiographical writing
>> Nude media: in intensification of context
‘You’re a joke!’
>> Oblique autobiography: mere data is a fiction
‘Vital statistics’?
21. ‘Free encyclopedia’:
* appropriation
* (the myth of) ‘automatic writing’
‘Often those sentences aren't even mine.
Half twisted news articles, quotes,
everything mixed up. Half baked translations
of Jack Spicer, a poet I love, are also in there.
This whole “Free encyclopedia” came out
during a trip that lasted a couple of days.’
(NRC Handelsblad, June 19, 2014)
23. ‘This isn't a joke to me,
not a question of being
hip; sometimes it even
brings on despair.’
Flickr: Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious
24. Real-time autobiography:
* language and media are inescapable
intrusions
* everything fiction, no facts
* so there’s no reality, only realness
* which has to do with personal experience
* context is intensified
* data is obfuscated
* collectivity (the intrusions, the expectations,
the overload of data) seems the problem
* AND the solution
