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The book offers critiques of everything from Ibsen to writing hints. Out of all these myriad cultural referents, which is most illuminating for you?

Andrew Noselli I thought Adorno's comment that, in the modern world, the concept of satire has disappeared because in order to be ironic there must be a distinction …moreI thought Adorno's comment that, in the modern world, the concept of satire has disappeared because in order to be ironic there must be a distinction between ideology and reality; that this distinction has been eliminated in modern American culture can be glimpsed from the Fox News aura that pervades our social world of entertainment by information and the flattening effects of the cinema-show paradise we can utopia.(less)

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