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well, sort of: if the world around me was simply a fiction, then it would not matter what the content was: it is more a political narrative that emplots a particular logic/way of ordering things and that functions as a support for particular political arguments/views that one might have. the fiction/not fiction division seems to me to get in the way more than it helps here.
i can see how you would think that the position you outline above would be pragmatic, art: but i see it as following from a political position. i suppose that the notion of pragmatism in this context has also to to with what you could imagine yourself doing to alter/effect this kind of situation abroad in the world. given what i do, i can retain the illusion that i could talk in the public sphere about the matter (whether it would make any difference is another matter), so my way of defining pragmatic (accomidation with the environment in another terminology) is different. also, if you do any work on industrial environments, you find youself reading wage levels as indices of class conflict (however it is institutionalized) and this too might explain the divergence of views.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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