David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity, and Late Capitalism

Enroll now for AHRC Summer School — https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Is sincerity even possible when the medium is rigged against it? In this episode, Hannah Smart, fiction writer, critic, and author of the debut novel Meat Puppets , joins Craig, Adam, and Emma to think through the legacy of David Foster Wallace and Mark Fisher, tracing the connections between Wallace's call for a new sincerity and Fisher's hauntological vision of a culture that forgot how to imagine its own future. Together we wrestle with the performative male, the death of boredom, the trap of self-consciousness, and whether any of us—writers, theorists, or just extremely online humans—have actually found a way out of the irony that Wallace spent his career trying to dismantle. Hannah Smart Website — https://hannahsmart97.wixsite.com/home Preorder Meat Puppets — https://merchtable.bigcartel.com/product/meat-puppets-by-hannah-smart LARB Essay — https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nothing-ever-happens-mister-squishy-and-the-year-of-the-sentence-diagram/ Twitter — https://x.com/fowlinghantod?s=21&t=ZAJhi-EV7b2OIyMqqtFrtw Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/howlingfantod?igsh=MTVvdmY4YmJsc…