Fully Automated Larry Stylinson

Through this article Fanfiction is employed as a speculative vehicle or "theory-fiction" (Mark Fisher) to think about a post-capitalist life of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, where 'real' celebrities (The British boyband One Direction, in this case) are replaced by synthetic look-a-likes.

Fanfiction is staged here as not only an "escapist" pastime for "stalkers", "crazies" and "kooks", but as an expressive speculative practice that might have traction upon the ‘real’ world, especially the realities of the communities (fandoms) which form around such works (fanfiction) and theoretical concepts (Fully Automated Luxury Communism).

The first part stages a critical narrative that imagines such a dissent; the second stages my own, Bataille-inspired, queer definition of Fully Automated Larry Stylinson.