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

An episode of [Acid Horizon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1512615438), 29 Apr 2026, 1 h 14 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1064269/episodes/19094378-david-foster-wallace-mark-fisher-irony-sincerity-and-late-capitalism.mp3

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=MTVvdmY4YmJscXJrbw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Substack — https://substack.com/@howlingfantod?r=64xrn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Support the show AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.com AHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archives Submit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.com More Links Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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