On track of the unknown neologism.  Looking for leads on the ficto-quizzical, origins of this species, possibility spaces and the like.

Bullshit detectors typically topple from an acute inability to read between the lines and, or, when in the vicinity of the (((WFT))) hypercentre.

Nonetheless there are established fields worth wandering and wondering into, naked facts that will jostle loose implied allegations of whimsy or hoaxcraft.

Ficto-quizzicism is a neologistic attractor, calling forth a small brigade of other such portmanteau. We can align it as a flotsomnambulant variation on ficto-criticism. Flotsomambulance itself a more technical term for space-time transience.

Most noticeably ficto-quizzicism is mere shades apart from the term “ficto-critical”. Rosslyn Prosser citing Amanda Nettlebeck’s notes on ficto-critical conduct in Processing Fictocriticism describes this expanse as one of: “self reflexivity, the fragment, intertextuality, the bending of narrative boundaries, crossing of genres, the capacity to adapt literary forms, hybridized writing, moving between fiction (invention/speculation) and criticism (deduction/explication) of subjectivity (interiority) and objectivity (exteriority)”–

In the Weird Fiction milieu, these puzzle pieces are generated from likely enough sources. The Weird Tales of Lovecraft, Blackwood, Shaver, Serling, Eshun and other such twisty pretzels. New media, residual media, emergent media, dead media and their kin. Information environments overrun by conceptual kudzu. Hi Fidelity Concepts: Sci-Fi, Weird-Fi, Sonic-Fi, even occasionally Anartic-Fi exploded in ad hoc amalgamations with lo-fi videographic techniques, glitchcraft, expanded cinema, networked performance and other audio-visual agendas.

Like so many accelerations to facilitate collidoscopic views of that elusive Higgs Boson, this is a collaborative operation spanning many nodes and perhaps infiltrated even now by future influences. Simultaneous Blogs beget vlogs beget vamples and short docs. Live performance begets networked writing begets research and development of concepts, costumes, camera-assists, bookworks, occasional artspeak and then repeat gestures unravel again.

Detonation sidesteps denotations, exciting confused connotations and an aesthetic of complexity. Associational structures coalesce from the debris that survives impact: mingling, mutating and meandering into new forms.

As letter forms go, ficto is not far removed from salvo. Accept this lexiconspiracy, at least momentarily, and curious correspondences in such a firing of arms (to strike a target or simply to salute ) offer up another puzzle piece–one that does…not…quite…fit…

Apologies dear readers: This  ficto-quizzical is a strange bird- a paraform that the fleshy mind of this lone mammal can only calculate so quickly!