Fabrications & Fabulations

Fabrications: fiction, falsehood, unfact, untruth, intentional misrepresentation, misconduct
Fabulations: fantastic, mythical, nightmarish, blurring traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic

I did my STS research and try to put some things in relation using “google trends”:

FabLabs displace Hackerspaces,
Biohacking is outperforming BioArt,
OpenSource is soo 2004,
Gynepunk is overtaking Hackteria,
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Fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)

  1. (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
    the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
  2. (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
    The story is doubtless a fabrication.

Fabulation
In literary criticism, the term fabulation was popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The Fabulators, to describe the large and growing class of mostly 20th century novels that are in a style similar to magical realism, and do not fit into the traditional categories of realism or (novelistic) romance. They violate, in a variety of ways, standard novelistic expectations by drastic—and sometimes highly successful—experiments with subject matter, form, style, temporal sequence, and fusions of the everyday, fantastic, mythical, and nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic. To a large extent, fabulism and postmodernism coincide; John Barth, for example, was labeled a fabulist until the term “postmodernism” was coined.

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but I am interested in learning more about open python coding… maybe possible at unconf? (btw, I meant to post this here, but by accident attached it to the one below!) should probably start a new thread about this elsewhere?

I did complain straight away to G about the name, but the ‘convergence’ makes it all good…

I am interested in learning more about open python coding… Is anyone into that??
thx!

good clarifications…