Finance fiction: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

Finance fiction (view source)

Revision as of 15:55, 19 September 2023

2,511 bytes added , 19 September 2023

no edit summary

Amwelladmin

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators

82,891

edits

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{a|myth|}}{{d|Finance fiction|/ˈfaɪəns ˈfɪkʃən/|n|}} (As per the phonetics, pronounced “fience fiction”)
+{{a|fifi|{{image|isda protocol cover 1|jpg|Original Cover of ''[[The ISDA Protocol]]'' {{vsr|1943}}}}}}{{d|Finance fiction|/ˈfaɪəns ˈfɪkʃən/|n|}} (As per the phonetics, pronounced “fience fiction”)
-Finance fiction, or “[[fi-fi]]”, is a [[Post-modern|post-modern]] literary genre combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, history, legal drafting, management theory and jurisprudence to into a single amorphous, disintegrating, gonzo whole. It is reflexive, illogical, self-refuting, enlightened, 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}}.
+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, [[annihilistic]], auto-erotic; at the same time world-building and self-destructive.
+===Literature===
+The first universally recognised example of [[fi-fi]] was {{author|Hunter Barkley}}’s 2022 curious opus the {{br|The ISDA Protocol}}. Barkley developed the concept in his series of short stories, {{br|The Opco Boone Adventures}}. 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. Later Barkley works were increasingly, well, derivative: while they noionally satisfied the critieria of mundane fifi world they were increasingly preoccupied with dark conspiracies and eschatological millenarianism  — the weird, time-shifting {{br|The Atlantis Variation}} being a good example.
+Just how best to categorise Barkley’s own work has been the subject of much debate: its non-linearity and frequent digressions into the plainly made-up; self-aggrandising fantasy storylines placing thinly autobiographical characters in heroic roles, fits squarely into the [[Fantasty Fi-Fi]] camp; on the other hand dedicated followers point out that this fantasy world is in fact a brutal, painful, shockingly accurate rendition of how the world really is.
+===Film===
+By 1950 — a feature of the genre is that the time it exists in is in no sense linear — the genre had developed into other formats. A notable early cinematic release was  Muriel Repartee’s Z-grade financial disaster movie {{br|The Day of the MiFID}}, its sequel just seven years later, {{br|MiFID 2: Reloaded}} — with a screenplay by [[Barkley]] — and then in 2019 frankly disappointing culmination the trilogy, {{br|MiFID 3D: COVID Derevolutions}} set in the aftermath of a global pandemic, and shot in anamorphic three-dimensional widescreen, looked beautiful but left critics strangely cold, the consensus being a plainly out-of-ideas [[Muriel Repartee|Repartee]] contradicted the plot of earlier movies and, in a desperate attempt to breathe life into the franchise, relied heavily on superficial special effects in place of properly developed regulatory technical standards.
+{{Sa}}
+*{{Br|The Day of the MiFID}}
+* [[Hard fifi]] (as opposed to [[Fantasy fifi]]).