Writing in schizo-narration is simultaneously passive reception and active production of the scene.

Evidence

As in Naked Lunch, writing is both passive and active. Like Bill Lee, Spider, scratching away in his notebook in his idiolectic hieroglyphics, seems at one level only to be recording signal from outside; at another level, he is the producer of the whole scene, its derealiser. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 325

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Illustrates Fisher’s recurring figure of the ‘derealiser’ — the writer-character who both records and dissolves reality.
  • XREF: connects to: Literary framing operates at textual, contextual, and paratextual levels simultaneously.; Narration neutralizes subject and object, anticipating utopian reconciliation in its structure — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 384; Shifting focalization across protagonists deliberately produces uneven perspective (+1 more)

Broader Connections