How to live without irony? (2012) een essay van Christy Wampole
Drie jaar geleden schreef de Princeton hoogleraar Franse literatuur Christy Wampole in de New York Times een essay onder de titel How to live without irony? Wampole ziet de ironie als een heel defensieve houding: “Het ontslaat je van verantwoordelijkheid voor je keuzes, van gevoel voor esthetiek en meer. Wie ironisch leeft probeert zichzelf en plein public te verbergen.” Haar stuk uit de New York Times is opgenomen in de essaybundel the Other Serious
If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is —
then the hipster is our archetype
of ironic living.
then the hipster is our archetype
of ironic living.
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to the New York Times.
The essays in The Other Serious examine the signature phenomena of our moment: the way our lives contradict themselves, how exaggeration and excess seep into our collective subconscious, why gender is becoming more rather than less complicated, and how we interact with the material things that surround us. It is a book about the delicacy and bluntness of American life, about how pop culture sticks its finger deeply into the ethical dilemmas of our time, and how to negotiate between the old and the new, the high and the low, the global and the local, the sacred and the profane. At the heart of these reflections lies a central question: What should you do when you don’t know what to do?
Bron: harpercollins.com
The essays in The Other Serious examine the signature phenomena of our moment: the way our lives contradict themselves, how exaggeration and excess seep into our collective subconscious, why gender is becoming more rather than less complicated, and how we interact with the material things that surround us. It is a book about the delicacy and bluntness of American life, about how pop culture sticks its finger deeply into the ethical dilemmas of our time, and how to negotiate between the old and the new, the high and the low, the global and the local, the sacred and the profane. At the heart of these reflections lies a central question: What should you do when you don’t know what to do?
Bron: harpercollins.com
Het probleem van deze tijd: we zijn te ironisch alles, is een grapje [ trouw.nl ]
