The basic structures of fiction shape how we make sense of reality

Evidence

It is not that we confuse fiction with reality, believing everything that we see, but that the fundamental elements of every narrative, events, actions, and transformations, become the very way that we make sense of reality. Fiction exists in a permanent relation of metalepsis with reality, as figures and relations from one constantly inform the other. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1877

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book_so_far thread ch34 on hauntology/metalepsis and ch61 on media palimpsests — and to Fisher’s wider argument across preceding chapters that fantasy and narrative frames structure political perception. — connects to: Modernity has lost not belief but the art of inhabiting fictional playzones — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 373; Fiction multiplies ambiguity by exploring particulars that suggest general truths; Fictions act performatively to transform readers rather than merely represent reality — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 109 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fiction multiplies ambiguity by exploring particulars that suggest general truths #expands (0.75)
• Fiction and fictive temporality are analytically separable from narrative structure. #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 218
• Fictions act performatively to transform readers rather than merely represent reality #expands (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 109