Modernity has lost not belief but the art of inhabiting fictional playzones
Evidence
In any case, what adults and moderns have lost is not the capacity to uncritically believe, but the art of using the series as triggers for producing inhabitable fictional playzones. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 373
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘inhabitable fictional playzones’ as the concept Fisher is really after.
- XREF: connects to: Situationist playfulness got co-opted into harmless bourgeois amusements — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 340; The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject; Commodifying play does not exhaust what play genuinely provides — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 368 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- The basic structures of fiction shape how we make sense of reality
#expands(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1877 - Children’s play-space can invert colonial discovery narratives
#exemplifies(0.82) - Commodifying play does not exhaust what play genuinely provides
#qualifies(0.80) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 368 - The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject
#exemplifies(0.75)