Was thinking about this today: The FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY: As in the fiction-of-crime, the category encompasses both `philosophical fiction' and that aspect of philosophy which encounters fiction as a mode of inquiry. Philosophical fiction would include the novels of Bataille, Ballard, Gibson, Sartre; works of Jabes, Michaux, Lautreamont, Karl Kraus; poetry of Lucretius, Susan Howe, Holderlin; the philosophical micro-narratives of Baudrillard, Nietzsche, and Barthes; Lingis' exhilerated accounts of the other/ gender, Kathy Acker's deconstruction of sexualities and politics, and other writers/writings too numerous to mention...
And wondered if anyone here has read Michael Taussig's _The Magic of the State_ or any of his books which seem to particularly embrace the above? I hadn't read any, and was wondering what people thought of the work. His books are: Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America My Cocaine Museum Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : A Study in Terror and Healing The Nervous System The Magic of the State
