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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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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One of the reasons I still love going to furry conventions is that it’s the only place left on earth where irony has almost no room to breathe. No matter how ironic you think you’re being when you put on a giant happy dog costume, you’re still wearing a giant happy dog costume.
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It’s the literal opposite of this The Onion classic:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theonion.com/why-cant-anyone-tell-im-wearing-this-business-suit-iron-1819584239/amp …
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