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“Irony’s useful for debunking illusions, but most of the illusion-debunking in the U.S. has now been done and redone. Once everybody knows that equality of opportunity is bunk and Mike Brady’s bunk and Just Say No is bunk, now what do we do? All we seem to want to do is keep ridiculing the stuff. Postmodern irony and cyninicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving. There’s some great essay that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage.” <\/em><\/p>\n

N\u00e4in sanoo David Foster Wallace kirjassa Conversations with David Foster Wallace<\/em>, joka kokoaa yksiin kansiin h\u00e4nen t\u00e4rkeimpi\u00e4 haastattelujaan.<\/p>\n

Suosittelen sit\u00e4 l\u00e4mpim\u00e4sti kaikille Wallacen lukijoille sek\u00e4 mahdollisille tuleville lukijoille, joille t\u00e4m\u00e4 haastattelukirja toimii hyv\u00e4n\u00e4 johdatuksena. Wallacella oli uskomaton kyky k\u00e4sitell\u00e4 monimutkaisia teemoja ja asiayhteyksi\u00e4 helposti l\u00e4hestytt\u00e4v\u00e4ll\u00e4 tavalla, ilman teoriapuhetta, josta h\u00e4n er\u00e4st\u00e4 haastattelijaansa ojentaa: “You’ve got a gift for the lit-speak, LM. Who wouldn’t love this jargon we dress common sense in: ‘formal innovation is no longer transformative, having been co-opted by the forces of stabilization and postindustrial inertia,’ blah blah.”<\/p>\n

Tuo “hieno essee”, johon Wallace viittaa tuon kursivoidun sitaatin lopussa on h\u00e4nen oma esseens\u00e4. Eli kuvitelkaamme pilke h\u00e4nen silm\u00e4kulmaansa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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