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"Postirony is a term I use in my academic writing to talk about a range of contemporary artists (working in literature, film, comics, and music). The postironic sensibility or movement or ethos has been discussed in a scattered way, under a number of labels, including 'neosincerity,' 'New Sincerity,' 'mumblecore,' 'postpostmodernism,' and so on. My core idea is that whatever it was that we meant by 'postmodernism' is no longer the state of the art in the arts. Around the late 1980s, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and others decided to put irony back on the shelf. For writers who loved the tradition of metafiction, writers like David Foster Wallace, moving forward meant grappling with postmodern irony, wrestling it to the ground." - When Falls the Coliseum, Alex Kudera interview with Lee Konstantinou, 13 May 2010 <http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2010/05/13/interview-with-lee-konstantinou/>