{"id":108813,"date":"2017-03-16T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108813"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:41:03","slug":"hi-im-being-sarcastic-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/hi-im-being-sarcastic-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, I\u2019m Being Sarcastic, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108817\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/milk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108817\" class=\"wp-image-108817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/milk.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/milk.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/milk-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/milk-768x625.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just joking around, drinking milk in the sun.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How about irony, huh? It\u2019s complicated! On the Internet, any ironic message broadcast beyond certain narrow parameters has the irony sucked out of it like bone marrow: blockheads and buffoons get ahold of your words and are all like, Is that some kind of <em>joke<\/em>? Do you think that\u2019s <em>funny<\/em>? We\u2019re a post-joke society, and the situation is dire. Amelia Tait has diagnosed our cultural disease, and she proposes a radical solution: a full-time sarcasm font. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/science-tech\/2017\/03\/sarcasm-font-now-only-thing-can-save-society-total-ruin\" target=\"_blank\">We now live in a time where people are being divided right down the middle on social media into camps called \u2018Yes, Enlightened\u2019 and \u2018No, Very Bad.\u2019<\/a> In the world of woke, one misunderstood joke runs the risk of ruining someone\u2019s reputation. It is therefore with a heavy heart that I must suggest an immediate worldwide implementation of a sarcasm font \u2026 I want everything sarcastic to henceforth be written in that one WordArt that is all wavey and blue and great for GCSE Geography projects on the Savanna. Any time a satirical article is written, the whole thing will be bright and blue so that no one need pop over to the Facebook comment section\u00a0to wish the author would be forcibly taken from their bed at dawn and shot in the face. The future of our fragmented society relies on this, more than anything else.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe it\u2019s best if we just abandon language altogether\u2014certainly it doesn\u2019t seem to help us talk clearly about sex and desire, which means, what\u2019s the point? Grindr, the gay meetup app, is leading the charge to forgo words, in all their uselessness. Guy Trebay writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/14\/fashion\/grindr-gay-emoji-gaymoji-digital.html?mtrref=getpocket.com&amp;gwh=E5AFCA7170C72DF9D3FF6DE82ED4B4DE&amp;gwt=pay&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Grindr will offer to users a set of trademarked emoji, called Gaymoji\u2014500 icons that function as visual shorthand for terms and acts and states of being that seem funnier, breezier and less freighted with complication when rendered in cartoon form in place of words<\/a>.\u201d But will this allow for unfettered sexual expression, as Grindr claims it would\u2014or are users just trading the shackles of language for the shackles of top-down corporate fascism? Doug Meyer, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, told the <em>Times<\/em>: \u201c \u2018One problem is, you have this common language that\u2019s not being organically created by marginalized people,\u2019 as were secret hankie or hatband codes once used to signal identity in the era of the closet \u2026 \u2018The corporate element is a new part of this. Having a common corporate language created to benefit a business ends up excluding a lot of people and creating very particular and normative ways of thinking about sex.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In search of himself, Carvell Wallace goes west, to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering\u2014but the culture he discovers there is even more rife with complications of race and privilege than the one he left: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2990869\/the-roots-of-cowboy-music\/?xrs=_s.tw_news\" target=\"_blank\">I had an image of cowboy poets as something very close to how I saw myself<\/a>. Not culturally, but spiritually. People who find beauty in the simplest things. People who like to wander. People who become overwhelmed with feeling and need to write it out \u2026 but for some reason I couldn\u2019t focus. It occurred to me that while I really wanted to be here, I kind of didn\u2019t want to be here. I would have been excited to be a fly on the wall, hearing the music, listening to the poets, taking in the ranching tales. But I didn\u2019t want to be\u00a0<em>me<\/em>\u00a0here. I didn\u2019t want to be a black writer from Oakland walking through a room full of cowboys.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>With Geert Wilders soundly rebuked in yesterday\u2019s election, let us turn our attention to finer aspects of Dutch culture: short stories about insane people. <em>The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories<\/em>, a new anthology edited by the perfectly named\u00a0Joost Zwagerman, collects thirty-six quintessential fictions from the Netherlands. As one critic writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21718462-why-novels-netherlands-are-rarely-flat-and-never-dull-strange-depths-dutch\" target=\"_blank\">Together they map a landscape of the imagination that is far from flat and never dull<\/a>. Zwagerman, a prolific writer who committed suicide in 2015, says in the preface that the writers he selects share one aim: \u2018to give a voice to madness\u2019 \u2026 Readers abroad should hearken to that literary voice in all its clich\u00e9-busting oddity. Rational calculation and amiable consensus do not invariably govern Dutch heads and hearts. Dig beneath the topsoil of \u2018this supposedly hard-headed country,\u2019 advises Zwagerman, and you hit a contradictory layer of \u2018contemplative arch-romantics\u2019 and \u2018reserved iconoclasts.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the (surprisingly resilient) brouhaha surrounding Gay Talese\u2019s book <em>The Voyeur\u2019s Motel<\/em>, Michelle Dean sees the fault lines of New Journalism\u2014a series of problems that have followed its original practitioners, Talese especially, into this century. As masterly as they can be, she writes, it\u2019s hard to buy their claims that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-serendipiters-journey\/\">they were deeper reporters than others, and they used the literary techniques and fine prose of fiction to help capture the ways that all reporting is, in part, subjective<\/a>. That they were preceded in this by American journalists reaching back to Nellie Bly, who innovated many of their techniques long before them, most of the New Journalists never seemed to acknowledge. Their eagerness, above all else, was to claim their novelty, and in retrospect, it seems that this may have been the most radical thing they did: to elevate the writer\u2019s style and personality above the subject matter \u2026 Today, they are venerated by other journalists for having finally managed to become famous merely as bylines. But look, oh look, where it has got them.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s arts and culture news: the eternal perils of conveying irony online; insanity in modernist Dutch short stories; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[27853,27854,10786,18125,27852,17946,687,6954,18773,27851,10613],"class_list":["post-108813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-cowboy-poetry-festival","tag-dutch-fiction","tag-emoji","tag-gay-talese","tag-gaymoji","tag-grindr","tag-language","tag-new-journalism","tag-sarcasm","tag-sarcasm-font","tag-the-netherlands"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does the Internet Need a Sarcasm Font?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: the eternal perils of conveying irony online; 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