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

About this episode

The episode explores the legacy of David Foster Wallace and Mark Fisher, focusing on sincerity and cultural imagination in the context of 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 fut...

People in this episode

Hosts: Craig, Adam, Emma

Guest: Hannah Smart

Topics covered

• sincerity
• irony
• late capitalism
• David Foster Wallace
• Mark Fisher
• culture
• imagination

Keywords

• sincerity
• irony
• David Foster Wallace
• Mark Fisher
• late capitalism
• culture
• imagination

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