/lit/ - Literature

>>9031417
>I can't tell what you mean.
Slice of Life, non-adventure, non-drama. My point was that there's a shift from what characters do, to how characters live. No more events, no more villains or morals.

>And amazingly this is where precisely those things began to blast off in the West. There was no May '68 or Woodstock in Japan.
I'm an /m/ dude, so to give you a sense of how ridiculously sudden this shift was, let me give you some /m/ examples: In the 70s you had Mitsuteru Yokoyama directly denouncing Japanese war crimes and Go Nagai putting the most fetishistic things he could in manga; in the 80s you had Yoshiyuki Tomino establishing a dialectic synthesis based around the lack of communication between individuals and generations down to his directing style; then in the 90s you have Patlabor being as grounded as a mecha show could be and Evangelion being as neurotic as you can think. Then the contemporary paradigm for anime and manga begun to form. This all happened in three to four decades; nowadays politics are all but abandoned in Japanes drawn-media.

>>9031472
To continue on with the body disclosing: How much of our culture is based on touch? Let's look at the arts: there's music, there's painting, there's literature, we have cuisine and perfumery; but we don't have an art of touch, do we? Which is interesting, because so many of our metaphores are about touch: getting in touch, attachment and grasping, pressure, being here or there, spatial or tactile words are the ones that we most use when getting down to the base of action or being; everything else we can easily call "the senses"; when we touch we talk of "feeling up". Pain and pleasure are put under this actegory too.

So why there aren't touch work of arts in museums? Because if people touch them they'll break or fall apart--they're transcient. Touch is the most transcient feeling because one must always be in con*tact* with the thing to feel it. So why do religions restrict sex? Sex is touch, touch that almost goes beyond touch (having another sentient body inside or being inside it), it's bound to produce tremendous attachment. You can hum a nice song or think about a pretty picture, but another sexual act is another sexual act. And yet this is precisely the first wall most religions throw at you!

And, with regards to technology, how much of the craftsmanship that has been lost has been manual? It's homo "sapiens", but the first thing we have of are physical tools. Considering the above part is it weird that science first went for this, first served the material, physical needs of people, and that to this day entertainment hasn't managed to include touch? When we describe things, we often assume how they look is how the would feel when we touched, but isn't an illusion precisely not this? Does how something looks certainly tell us how it smells, tastes or sounds? Then why are we so ready to infer touch? Because coming into contact with something is much more dangerous.

Right lads

I'll be straightforward. I know that for all the layers of irony and disaffection you cake yourselves in, what you want more than pretty much anything else, when it comes to your art, is recognition, feedback, validation, etc.

And that's fine. That's normal. That's expected.

From my perspective especially, that's good -- because some of you are actually quite bright.

The reason I'm making this post is because I've just started a lil' literary publication on Medium and want content for it. The link that explains submissions is here: https://medium.com/the-forvm/write-for-us-2f37e2b2a832#.q8rdypwpv

To be as blunt as possible we have a non-existent fanbase and can not pay you. I can promise, though, that you will get at least some extra traffic for having published in the magazine, and I will do my darnedest to market your stuff wherever I can.

So, give it a shot. Unsure if this abides by board rules; will gladly accept whatever administrative kick in the teeth may come from posting this. About time browsing /lit/ actually provided you with some kind of opportunity though amirite haha -- but no, really, have a wonderful night and thank you for your consideration

could you guys recommend me a book that would change me, pic unrelated

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