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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More examples. Irony really is the hardest sensibility to characterize even though we’re all immersed in it constantly now.https://literarydevices.net/irony/
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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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