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{{a|myth|}}{{d|Finance fiction|/ˈfaɪəns ˈfɪkʃən/|n|}} (As per the phonetics, pronounced “fience fiction”) | {{a|myth|}}{{d|Finance fiction|/ˈfaɪəns ˈfɪkʃən/|n|}} (As per the phonetics, pronounced “fience fiction”) | ||
Finance fiction, or “[[fi-fi]]”, is a post-[[Post-modern|post-modern]] literary genre combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, history, legal drafting, management theory and jurisprudence | Finance fiction, or “[[fi-fi]]”, is a post-[[Post-modern|post-modern]] literary genre combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, history, legal drafting, management theory and jurisprudence into a single amorphous, disintegrating, gonzo whole. | ||
It is reflexive, illogical, self-refuting, enlightened, primordial, analytical, continental, rational, impossible, anarchic, auto-erotic world-building and self-destructive. | |||
The first universally recognised example of [[fi-fi]] was {{author|Hunter Barkley}}’s 2022 opus the {{br|The ISDA Protocol}}. | |||
The genre then split into so-called “[[hard fifi]]” and “[[mundane fifi]]”, in which all elements of the narrative elements were constrained by an overriding concern for juridical accuracy and a primacy placed on technical details, and [[soft fifi]] and “[[fantasy fifi]]”, where the emphasis is on the human element of the story and the technical feasibility or even possibility of the world-building is less important, and may be bent to accommodate the psycho drama. | |||
How to categorise Barkley’s own work has been the subject of much debate: its non-linearity and frequent digressions into plainly made-up and self-aggrandising fantasies places it squarely into the fantasy fifi camp; dedicated followers point out that this fantasy world is in fact a brutal, painful, shockingly accurate rendition of how the world really is. | |||
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* [[Hard fifi]] (as opposed to [[Fantasy fifi]]). | |||