Author: Ivan Dal Cin
In 2003 I was aware of the Sokal Affair. As a fan of Luther Blissett's pranks, this seemed like the next step, translated into the institutional sphere. With serious consequences also in the university environment I frequented. For my degree thesis I tried to superimpose some ideas, partly rehashed, about visual anthropology, net art, and radical music. I didn't know there was such a thing as "theory-fiction" yet, and I'm not sure I can attach that label to this work. It was my first ambitious (ambiguous) theoretical act (hack). By combining many notes and quotes with brief scripts, fake sources and a long interview built without questions, I've experimented with a multi-focal/vocal writing device that is involuted, self-aware and (of course) auto-ironic.
