A return to the concept of “worldbuilding” - GUI 70

Mike and Alex Return to the concept of worldbuilding, armed with new concepts and examples. What exactly defines the act of worldbuilding? What are the different components of this act? What is the antithesis of worldbuilding? ARGUMENT: Good literature concerns not merely what has happened but what kind of thing WOULD happen in accordance with categorical necessity[i]; it is "political" or inherently collective, considers individuals not in themselves but in relation to the machine, as part of wider categorical or ontological assemblages[ii]. We are forced to cast our gaze on their metaphysics [in a manner others have done with respect to pop music[iii]].A sound metaphysics is the difference between world building and the commodification of a world, rendering it "a fictional system which can be added to infinitely", spectacle or pantomime at the level of particulars without an informing ground[iv]. It is not merely the appropriation or reuse of aspects of other worlds that qualifies a commodo-world, for all world building proceeds by decomposition and recomposition[v], does not proceed ex nihilo. The antithesis of worldbuilding is instead the appropriation of particular tropes onto a flat plane which then metastasize and proliferate as a shuddering aggregation with no governing metaphysics (or no conscious and sound one).