A pox on hipsterdom

In her book, Irony's Edge, academic critic Linda Hutcheon had elevated irony to the status of a subversive tool--used to challenge hierarchical modes of thinking.

Hutcheon had invested irony with political value.

Another academic, Christy Wampole, not only divests 21st century irony of any creative value, but also sees it as a cultural plague. 

Wampole's representative figure of irony is the "Hipster."

Here is Wampole's scathing criticism of the Hipster mode of ironic living,