Fabricated interviews smuggled fiction’s techniques into journalism’s commonsense

Evidence

Reading Hari’s pieces back, it’s quite astonishing how crass these techniques were — a “she drew on the omnipresent cigarette” here, and “he asked for more wine” there, inserted between screeds of pirated text. It’s like Hari’s “interviewing” career is one long postmodern prank, and, really, this episode ought to be liberal empiricism’s equivalent of the Sokal scandal. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1567

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fiction’s absorption of memoir and self-branding erases fictionality — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 161; Genre-mixing in memoir can undermine rather than fortify its ideological message — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 217

Broader Connections

• Fiction’s absorption of memoir and self-branding erases fictionality #expands (0.72) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 161
• Genre-mixing in memoir can undermine rather than fortify its ideological message #expands (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 217