Comments on: The Myth of Fiction

By: Scribo

Scribo — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:59:56 +0000

Slayers, journalists, fiction and contextualism
Peter Ludlow recently posted From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction, a paper that manages to marry a classic problem in philosophy of language with his long time interest in

By: urizenus

urizenus — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:18:39 +0000

>RL money is itself a fiction

yes. u can make a good case for that.

By: Dyerbrook

Dyerbrook — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:58:11 +0000

RL money is itself a fiction — a symbol — signifying the gold stored in the treasury (or so we are led to believe). That gold only acquired value because…why? Because thousands of years ago some ancient tribe found it malleable and glittery and made jewelry with it? But why was glittery considered pretty? All of these so-called real objects and real things in the real world are themselves largely just made up of the human aspirations, ideas, imagination ascribed to them and placed on them with so many layers over the ages… That’s why it was easy to turn simoleons into ebay money — ebay money is a fictionalized version of the symbol of paper cash…which is backed up by…what again?

I dl’d the paper and I’ll read it later. I think the fictional characters and money/economy issues are entertaining, but aren’t as interesting as the psychodrama issues. How is it that I can become really, really upset that my Sim spouse has deleted in one city, but not another…or that we are working too hard in DC and have no down time together, or whatever…it’s just too crazy, no?

BTW, I came to SL but so far all I do is just fly around and bang into buildings.

By: humdog

humdog — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:35:23 +0000

luddie, you do go on so — and the references are so CRUNCHY! mmmmmm footnotes…

thanks for the opportunity to crawl in your head.

i like what i have read so far. be back later with Qs.

By: blaze

blaze — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:25:06 +0000

Hard to comment intelligently without the appropiate background, so I’ll try to change the subject a bit.

When we talk about the flow from fiction into the real and the real into fiction, why don’t we address the concept of models as a predictive force more often?

In fact, any “real life” venture generally predicates most of its actions based on a model of some sort.

Aren’t things like SL, EQ, really just sophisticated models?