Hoax Machina: A Hermeneutics of Hoaxing

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dc.contributor.advisorRoof, Judithen_US
dc.creatorLowe, Annieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-16T19:52:29Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-08-01T05:01:12Zen_US
dc.date.created2021-08en_US
dc.date.issued2021-08-11en_US
dc.date.submittedAugust 2021en_US
dc.date.updated2021-08-16T19:52:29Zen_US
dc.description.abstractHoax Machina: A Hermeneutics of Hoaxing reinterprets the relationships between literary and popular traditions of hoaxing. The titular “hoaxing” of a hermeneutics of hoaxing names a particular practice of interactive writing and reading, by which the historical and material conditions of texts, their mimetic techniques and diegetic devices, and popular reflection and debate are all brought into the public domain of extended exegesis, wherein information is merely the pretense for performance, and perception is already participation.Pursuing this definitional premise through a historical range of hoaxes—from Jonathan Swift’s and Benjamin Franklin’s fake astrological predictions through Barnumesque humbugs, Houdini’s art of mystification, financial frauds, and forged fictions, to digitally-automated artifices of intelligence—this project theorizes their interplay of suspicious and credulous interpretation and contestation in terms of an alternative popular hermeneutics. Hoaxing turns analytic questions into complex riddles and elaborate confidence games that materialize existential and epistemic propositionality; such a hermeneutics could both debunk and restore our prevailing, misdirective stories of knowledge, belief, and truth.en_US
dc.embargo.terms2023-08-01en_US
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dc.identifier.citationLowe, Annie. "Hoax Machina: A Hermeneutics of Hoaxing." (2021) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/111220">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/111220</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/111220en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjecthoaxesen_US
dc.subjectconfidence gamesen_US
dc.subjecthermeneuticsen_US
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.subjectfrauden_US
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectstage magicen_US
dc.subjectmisdirectionen_US
dc.subjectmisinformationen_US
dc.titleHoax Machina: A Hermeneutics of Hoaxingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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