/lit/ - Literature

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>>6389066
What does that even mean?

I don't think there's an equivalent of "meme-rap" in literature.

>>6389066
will fap ironically to her thanks op

>>6389066
My best friend for a while only did anything ironically and at some point, I realised I had to ditch him because he was terrible.

yeah, I read popular science fiction from time to time. I also watch shit sci-fi movies whenever I can.

it's not entirely ironically, it's the only type of pop literature I can stand, and the reason I want to read pop literature is because masscult feeds on ideology and therefore contain nothing but. And ideology, for me, is like a poison: you need to consume small doses from time to time if you want to develop immunity.

>>6389156
dear God and so on

>>6389112
This guy here. Can someone actually explain to me what this entails? How do you read ironically? What does it mean?

>>6389066

Yes his name is /lit/

>>6389200
You read it not because you enjoy reading it, but because the book (or reading the book) is considered childish or amoral or posesses some other negative connotation, and you want to be contrarian for political or humerous effect.

An example would be running a Harvard bookclub that only deals with these gas-station erotica novels.

>>6389250
I've taken on books because of notoriety before, but it usually comes from a place of honest curiosity. Like I tried to read Fifty Shades of Grey, gave up on that one after 150 pages of garbage and realizing there was still another 400 to go.

>>6389066
I would fuck taylor swift on her back with my hand around her throat.

I read 4chan ironically and I post ironically.

I know a lot of girls who read fan fiction ironically.

>>6389250
What, but why would you read books purely because you enjoy them?

That is pleb-tier reading. Fun is a buzzword.

>>6389066
Me

>>6389066
i unironically want to cum on taylor swift's feet

i would try to be ironic about it tho

>>6389066
I personally like to read things I don't like. I'm planning on reading "The Law That Never Was." So I can get mad at the illumination.

There is no such thing as enjoying things ironically. You either enjoy them, or you don't. Anything else is just word filler people say to justify their tastes.

If you are reading something under no obligation to do so, it's because you are getting some sense of enjoyment out of it.

>>6389794
Ironic doesn't mean not enjoying, it just means the enjoyment you are receiving from the text is not derived from the texts literal intent/expected experience.

Reading an old copy of Life Magazine from the 50s to get a sense of the time period would be an ironic reading.

Reading a Chick Tract to laugh at the authors ideas would be ironic reading.

Reading a work of poetry or literature in an attempt to manufacture political context from it and turn it into a political statement would be an ironic reading of the work. In fact there are probably thousands of (philistine) phds who only read works ironically.

In fact Bloom's notion of misprision and Barthes' idea of authorial death both implicitly conclude that the only way a text is ever read is through ironic misreading.

>>6389066
Yeah, myself, when I read you know which scene of the The Dark Knight Rises novelization. It was ironically because the sole purpose was to laugh at how terrible it was and I wouldn't have touched the book even with a 10 foot pole otherwise.

>>6389727
someone post the greentext screencap of a bro giving a blowjob to his bro ironically

I think pretentious or maybe ostentatious are better adjectives for what you are describing.

I feel like ironic enjoyment of things for the sake of humor is distracting us from the things we really like. I have friends who get nervous whenever they talk about books un ironically.

>>6389144
You're a horrible person

>>6390594
And you're an enabler, anon.

>>6390444

Almost everything single book I read tbf

>>6389632
If i didn't enjoy reading i wouldn't fucking read.

I browse /pol/ and /r9k/ ironically once in a while.

>>6393829
No you don't, you just think you do.

I've sort of considered reading Twilight