What are the earliest examples of what we’d recognize as postmodern irony in the wild? (ie not academic theorizing, but in speeches, mainstream fiction, media etc) I consider wrestling kayfabe to be a good modern representative example Reference examples https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-irony.html …
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Most attempts at transcending irony seem to fail in ironic ways. Mostly it’s ineffectively reactionary sincerity in response to cynicism, rather than irony. A response that appears to not actually be sensitive to irony in the first place.
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It’s postcampy. If camp is “failed seriousness” (Susan Sontag) postcamp is failed irony transcendence. The misreading of cynicism as irony is revealing. There is pure cynicism, and cynicism as a reductive perception of irony. Postcampies cant tell the two apart.
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On Earth, as it is in heaven! The Internet, which runs on silicon, produces irony in great quantities. But going beyond iron, in stellar nucleosynthesis, requires a different process; the first sign will be a sudden collapse and a shockwave. What will our r-process be?
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