Simon O’Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. His other most recent books are On Theory-Fiction and Other Genres (2024); The Ancient Device (2024); and (with David Burrows) Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (2019). He is also part of the collaborative "performance fiction" Plastique Fantastique (see www.plastiquefantastique.org).

"There’s a real deftness of thought here, and one that’s vitalised by its fluid movement between both artistic and theoretical resources, from the ‘cut-up’ literary exercises of William Burroughs to the experiments in fictional religion enacted by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth through the 1980s."—Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Review

Simon O’Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. His other most recent books are On Theory-Fiction and Other Genres (2024); The Ancient Device (2024); and (with David Burrows) Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (2019). He is also part of the collaborative "performance fiction" Plastique Fantastique (see www.plastiquefantastique.org).

"There’s a real deftness of thought here, and one that’s vitalised by its fluid movement between both artistic and theoretical resources, from the ‘cut-up’ literary exercises of William Burroughs to the experiments in fictional religion enacted by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth through the 1980s."—Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Review

Simon O’Sullivan is Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. His other most recent books are On Theory-Fiction and Other Genres (2024); The Ancient Device (2024); and (with David Burrows) Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy (2019). He is also part of the collaborative "performance fiction" Plastique Fantastique (see www.plastiquefantastique.org).

"There’s a real deftness of thought here, and one that’s vitalised by its fluid movement between both artistic and theoretical resources, from the ‘cut-up’ literary exercises of William Burroughs to the experiments in fictional religion enacted by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth through the 1980s."—Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Review