Metafiction as Diffractive Practice/s
摘要
This concluding chapter synthesizes the lenses of the previous chapters into a metafictioning modelModel that is simultaneously metafictioning in the larger narrative ecologyNarrative ecology. The core claim of this studyThe Metafictioning Manifold has been that metafictionMetafictions operate as performative, neocybernetic, and diffractive practices, not merely as formal devices that can be read into the metafictional text. However, this formalism is not precluded from the understanding of metafiction, and in fact a posthumanPosthuman exploration of the metafictional novelNovel reveals their bio-logicBio-logical material-discursive makeup as relational and ethical object-systems modeling the same dynamics in the larger metafictioningMetafictioningmanifold manifold.