/lit/ - Literature

>>16597336
This is a fantastic assessment, thank you. My analysis is similar: I think the greatest deficit is a sense of continued engagement/responsibility, a way to get people to commit to a schedule or some formal way of going through a work and participating in some type of collective interpretation. smaller articles or smaller works in general--even a short story that is a page or 2--have proven successful in the past, but are isolated and usually unique events that don't often translate to greater communities or trajectories.
a large part of the deficit is simply leadership, and i don't mean to say that i can fill that, but at the very least i think that with a dedicated leader/material basis, e.g. a single library or institution, not only do you have a host of logistical aspects/prboelsm immediately offloaded, but you also provide a model of responsibility and commitment. whether or not people follow thereafter becomes fairly self-selecting and not doubt reflects some aspect of the leader's quality, but without a centralizing or coordinating lodestar/locus, virtually any project is simply not going to greenlight.
i think Weber is also right to assign such weight not so much to the leader, but to the first followers as well. carving out exactly what these first patrons are to look like i think is going to be key, and addresses in part some of the gatekeeping concerns from the get-go. my feeling here is that loose policies may initially be warranted, but as time goes on it will ideally become fairly self-selecting.

>>16600220
Yes, I will make a couple of reminders and will make a "final call" thread before the deadline.

>>16603277
they were never the most innovative types to begin with.