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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. | 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. | 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=== | ===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. | 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. | 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. | ||