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EPISODE · Aug 7, 2024 · 53 MIN

“I don’t want to join any club that would have me as a member”: How funny is irony meant to be?

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Humour can often be a response to the sense of being ill-at-home in society — perhaps even ill-at-home in the world. But whether it takes the form of fatalism or self-deprecation, all such forms of ironic self-distancing have a sting in the tail.

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