The Art of the Hoax

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Alan Sokal. “Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword.” < http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4.pdf> [accessed 10 may 2010]. We have chosen to use the widely and freely available website that makes a variety of materials available. Page references are therefore to the files hosted at the faculty website at New York University < http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal>(papers). 2 In Australia, certain people are called ‘bullshit artists’, referring to a habitual pattern of remarkably well-crafted, and so moderately convincing, bullshitting. 3 The case of Helen Darville's novel The Hand that Signed the Paper is perhaps the most recent, notorious, case of this in the Australian context. Darville changed her name (to Demidenko) and fabricated a personal history and ethnic identity that she envisaged would better underwrite the authenticity of the narrative. 4 Hans Robert Jauss, Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), p.159. 5 Alex Boese, The Museum of Hoaxes (New York: Dutton, 2002), p.257. 6 ‘Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae/Aut simul et iucunda et idonea dicere vitae’ Horace, ‘Ars Poetica’, Opera (London: OUP, 1901), np.11333–34. 7 Alex Boese, The Museum of Hoaxes, p.2. 8 John Austin, How to do Things with Words. 2nd edn (Cambrdge, Harvard University Press, 1962), p.14. 9 Jacques Derrida, ‘Signature Event Context’, Limited Inc. trans. Samuel Weber and Jeffrey Mehlman (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988), p.330. 10 Jacques Derrida, The Postcard from Socrates to Freud and Beyond. trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987) p.251. 11 Jacques Derrida, Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981) p.41. 12 It therefore entails thinking another historicity – not a new history or still less a “new historicism”, but another opening of event-ness [événementialité] as historicity (Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx: l'Etat de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale (Paris: Galilée, 1993), pp.125-26. 13 Alan Sokal, ‘Transgressing the Boundaries’ p.2. 14 Alan Sokal, ‘Transgressing the Boundaries’ p.2. 15 Alan Sokal, ‘Transgressing the Boundaries’ p.2. 16 Stanley Fish, ‘Professor Sokal's Bad Joke’, in The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy, ed. Lingua Franca (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), p.84. 17 See the article by physicist John Baez (‘The Bogdanov Affair’. June 21, 2006, < http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/>. 18 George Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2nd edn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), p.86. 19 Terry Hoad The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p.218. 20 Alan Sokal, ‘Transgressing the Boundaries’ p.2. 21 Cited in Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair (Sydney: Vintage, 2003), p.26. 22 cited in Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, p.69. 23 < www.Mayoclinic.com.health/graves-disease>. [Accessed 29 November 2009]. 24 Cited in Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, pp.77-78. 25 Dürer, Innsbruck, 1495, The Darkening Ecliptic, < http://jacketmagazine.com/17/ern-poems.html> [Accessed 29 March 2010]. 26 Sybilline, < http://jacketmagazine.com/17/ern-poems.html> [Accessed 29 March 2010]. 27 Frank Kermode, Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf to Philip Roth (London: Penguin, 2001), pp.88-89. 28 Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra’, in Postmodernism: A Reader, ed. Thomas Docherty (New York: Harvester, 1993), p.197. 29 Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra’, p.197. 30 Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, p.225. 31 Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, p.229. 32 Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, p.229. 33 Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, p.260. 34 Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p.330.