Fiction’s absorption of memoir and self-branding erases fictionality

Evidence

While the novel has always cannibalized other genres, the syncing of fiction with memoir, self-branding, and self-help in the contemporary combined with the economic pressures of self-manifestation evacuate fictionality today. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 161

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The claim that genre-syncing evacuates fictionality echoes the ‘Grafting & Growth’ essay’s argument about form as worldbuilding — here about the erosion of fictional distance under market immediacy.
• XREF: connects to: Fabricated interviews smuggled fiction’s techniques into journalism’s commonsense — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1567; Consensual fictionalization of reality disturbs more than private solipsism consoles us — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 109; People accept butterfly-effect logic in fiction but ignore it in their own lives — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 118