{"id":7182,"date":"2012-11-19T09:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2012-11-19T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T16:13:46","slug":"from-nytimes-how-to-live-without-irony-by-christy-wampole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/from-nytimes-how-to-live-without-irony-by-christy-wampole\/","title":{"rendered":"(from NYTimes) &#8216;How to Live Without Irony&#8217; By CHRISTY WAMPOLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream. He is a walking citation; his clothes refer to much more than themselves. He tries to negotiate the age-old problem of individuality, not with concepts, but with material things&#8230;.Throughout history, irony has served useful purposes, like providing a rhetorical outlet for unspoken societal tensions. But our contemporary ironic mode is somehow deeper; it has leaked from the realm of rhetoric into life itself. This ironic ethos can lead to a vacuity and vapidity of the individual and collective psyche.<\/p>\n<p><strong>click on the top image to read article in full<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/17\/how-to-live-without-irony\/?smid=pl-share\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7183\" title=\"18coverart-img-blog427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18coverart-img-blog427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18coverart-img-blog427.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18coverart-img-blog427-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Christy Wampole is an assistant professor of French at Princeton University. Her research focuses primarily on 20th- and 21st-century French and Italian literature and thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7184\" title=\"18IRONY-blog427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18IRONY-blog427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18IRONY-blog427.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/18IRONY-blog427-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"How to Live Without Irony\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F11%2F17%2Fhow-to-live-without-irony%2F#?secret=mBqDp9OPAi\" data-secret=\"mBqDp9OPAi\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 The hipster haunts every city street and university town. 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