2007/05/04 Berlin
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The end of irony

9/11

In yesterday’s International Herald Tribune Michael Cieply discusses the possible influence of violent movies on the Virginia Tech shooting and vice versa. The article ends with this quote by Martin Kaplan, “director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, which examines the links among entertainment, commerce and society”: “Famously, 9/11 was supposed to be the end of irony. If anything, irony has blossomed.” This leaves us with the question: when is the blossoming going to end? When will irony die? And what we are we going to gain from its demise?


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Popculture meets irony
Palm trees in Berlin, a french-colonialist style garden set, a MacBook, white unisex twin-set bathrobes, a mystery guest. Irony ends when we take ourselves seriously.
said tess molenaar 05/05/2007 12:19 • x
Tigre
Tess, this picture was taken in January 2007 in Tigre, Argentina. FYI.
said Arnon Grunberg 05/05/2007 12:37 • x
I guessed as much (not necessarily that it must be Argentina, but that it couldn't be Berlin )
said tess molenaar 05/05/2007 13:39 • x
I'm back for a short visit. I'm so busy, I think it's a shame.
Irony is a great subject. One believes that irony is going to stop when being naive is better. I believe being naive is better. Now only the rest has to follow. Let's go back and pretend we don't know everything so well..

said Dens Powells 05/05/2007 14:16 • x
I agree with Dens. Being naive is better. Forget yesterday; Carpe Diem.
said Herman Hartmann 05/05/2007 14:26 • x
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,985375,00.html#article_continue

a link to an article about ironie
said hanne v 05/05/2007 14:43 • x
I Think I will try a Keith Ridgway book (www.keithridgway.com) Animals. He seems to have a vieuw on 9/11 and relates subjects, I prefer over the usual crap about violence, movies and irony. Irony is only a spice of life; I like it in good proportion. I liked Tirza very much, I have a feeling I will like Animals too, I simply need a counterbalance for the massive ‘fun’ attacks these days. I follow my heart, but the sweet heart is a cruel master.

said Jan Thys 05/05/2007 16:51 • x
To be glamorously unDutch
You mentioned somewhere that the woman who accompanied you to the Golden Owl event loved all the things you hated about such an event.
I am dying of curiosity: who will you be taking with you to Libris on monday evening?
And: do you agree with what the jury has said regarding female novelists in Holland? ('braaf, onpersoonlijk en zielloos workshop proza')
said tess molenaar 05/05/2007 21:23 • x
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