>New Sincerity

>>9394348
I find this whole new sincerity a total non-issue. The average person still contains the same sentiments since before postmodernity.

It is bourgeois semantics.

>>9394366
Meh, a lot of people i know were beginning to get rather detached and nihilistic in the 2000s, and I see it turning around for some of my friends lately. Also has turned around tremendously in popular culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doZROwdte4

>>9394384
That video was pathetic. Complete misinterpretation of Wallace and embarrassing for the creator.

>hurr sincerity goooood, irony baaaaaad

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>>9394536
that wasn't even his argument you stupid fucking invalid

>>9394608
Yes it was.

I forget, is this the same thing as Hysterical Realism (hysterical being like hysteria not comedic, I've always assumed?) as coined by James Wood in his nasty little White Teeth review?

>>9394622
oh

hate how Zadie and DFW (his own fault) and even Franzen get lumped together with Eggers and Foer and the other pathetic imitators

people now just peddle in pretending to be sincere to hide their cravenness/dishonesty/same old misogyny- it's an old racket with a new name

>>9394366
>The average person still contains the same sentiments since before postmodernity.

What you think the average person in the West today contain the same sentiments as before around WW2?

>>9394366
>I find this whole new sincerity a total non-issue. The average person still contains the same sentiments since before postmodernity.
I don't think this renders the movement as useless. Most literary and philosophical movements don't impact the general population's thought in any significant way.
>It is bourgeois semantics.
Again, what? How so? How has the break from postmodern irony and cynicism been co-opted by the ruling class? this argument seems really unfounded and silly.

> Most literary and philosophical movements don't impact the general population's thought in any significant way.
and to clarify, I'm not saying philosophy as a whole has little impact on the thought of most people, just that *most* movements (especially contemporary ones) do not (the rise of structuralism and poststructuralism, for example, probably wouldn't have changed how people in general would think about things)

>>9394608
kek
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>>9394608
who is that on the mask? forgive my ignorance

>>9395423
Sartre.