The Phenomenon of Postirony and Metairony in Contemporary Culture: Content and Context

Post- and meta-ironies are phenomena of contemporary culture. Their manifestations are visible at all its levels, from the academic to the everyday. They are so striking that it is possible to discuss their influence on the condition of contemporary cultural standards. However, their conceptualization is still in the process, is realized only by a part of the community, which hinders the entry of these concepts and terms into the active cultural circulation and broad mass culture, leading to their discrepancies and variations in interpretation. But without an understanding of such phenomena it is virtually impossible to consider contemporary social interactions. In this article we propose an ontological retrospective of the term irony and its actual semantic derivatives, as well as an attempt to streamline its varieties, and consider the forms of interrelation with the socio-cultural space. Key words : irony, meta-irony, post-irony, post-modernism, meta-modernism, oscillation, syncretism