identity

irony

normalization

sarcasm

Cut Deep

Drip

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. Paul Fussell

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Elizabeth Bibesco

 regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley

dramatic irony

geographic irony

ironic distanciation

Socratic irony

smirk

wink

punchline

A.E. Housman

Adult swim

aesthetic distance

all that

anti-anti-relativist

anticlimax

art of not reading

Babe, are you ok?

bad taste

banality

Bill Murray

bittersweet

bleached out professionalism

boomerang effect

camp talk

Coen brothers

comic/tragic

counter-finality

cultivated philistine

cultural intimacy

decline in symbolic efficiency

detournement

divine capacity for lightness

double negative

Either/Or

emoticon

Evelyn Waugh

false humility

famous last words

imply

indirection

late capitalism

Lewis Sinclair

methodological philistinism

moral credential effect

needless to say

nihilist

obliviousness

perverseness

philosophy of the unconscious

Platonic dialogue

postmodern condition

ridiculous

sassiness

saw (saying)

self-veiling

seriousness - interest

snark

stages of existence

stealing memes

tastelessness

The New Yorker

The Onion

the Socratic method

unhappy consciousness

uselessness

impression

antifoundationalist theory hope

juxtaposition

kitsch

La Rochefoucauld

metafolklore

pastiche

poststructuralist postmodernism

Reality Bites

self-epitaph

so fetch

White Man's Burden

meme lord

coincidence

tropes and schemes

being literal

hyperbole

literal

metaphysical pathos

overidentification

racial slur

sentimental

serious speech act

serious statement

stock response

Alanis Morissette

Anatole France

Aubrey Plaza

bartender paradox

black comedy

Break a leg

converted cannibal

culture jaming

cunning of culture

cunning of reason

disemia

Douglas Coupland

golf clap

Heinrich Heine

Jonathan Swift

Ludovico Ariosto

manifest secret

Mission Accomplished

purloined letter

Robert Benchley

self-own

shitpost

Slim Shady

detachment

mockery

ambiguity

incongruity

self-awareness

hipster

Englishman

absurdist humor

achieving failure

aesthete

Andy Warhol

aphorist

authorial intention

backhanded compliment

backwards law

banter

black humor

bon mots

camp (kitch)

Christopher Hitchens

cult film

cynical reason of late socialism

dark sense of humor

David Foster Wallace

discursive disemia

disrupted consciousness

double voiced discourse

drollery

elenchus

Emma (novel)

enlightened false consciousness

eternal irony of the community

Euthyphro

exclusion by homage

faint praise

figure of speech

final vocabulary

flatulent phallus

Flintstones

Gen Z

Generation X

good intentions

Great Meme Reset

gregueria

Gustav Flaubert

historiographic metafication

ideological cynicism

illusion of self-mockery in jewish humor

ironist

Jane Austen

Jean Paul

jesting

Jewish humor

joke telling

kidder

knowingness

kynicism

Lafufu

Laurence Sterne

learning experience

lethal gift of livestock

levity

liberal irony

literally

lowkenuinely

Lytton Strachey

Marcel Duchamp

Max Beerbohm

metacommentary

metacommunication

metahistory

Miguel de Cervantes

mixed message

mocker

moment of the boomerang

narrative theory

neopragmatism

new criticism

O. Henry

only Nixon could go to china

irony, n.Trivia

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