/lit/ - Literature

>>10083724
Precisely. It's interesting to think that violence on a personal level hasn't played this role in Western fiction until recently, with the rise of superheroes and similar tropes. Though it might seem as if the privatization of violence would result in more individual and subjective power, it very well could be the opposite; the fact that violence and self-expression become intermingled to the point of immediate association signals precisely that self-expression requires something more than itself to come to be, that communication is inherently mediated and that no commonground can be found in a society. Though it might seem that violence is the solution to this hindrance, in fact it ends up perpetuating it in order to perpetuate itself. The role of the hero, despite being capable of holding many attribute, is in fact much more codified and predictable than one of the common person -- as such it lacks the inherent brutality of life experience, confounding it for pain, therefore fetishizing pain, and in the end finding security in masochism and sacrifice. That discourse has ended up in violence shows that it has not been let be for itself and that interests outside of itself have come into play with it. This is not to say that one can never speak in realtion to other things; on the opposite, it is the lack of pertinence when one speaks that is the problem: this is what leads people to ask questions only because they want a given answer -- it's neither out of the necessity present in the situation, nor out of actual curiosity, but because they want another to fit a certain given image.

>>5004806
>I thought that started earlier.
Afaik it didn't really start to go on full force until the 80s-90s.

>Well, engineering and battle tactics say that giant robots are useless so I'm passing on that.
Aw, that's a pity.

>there seems to be a lot of discussion over upcoming subs, particularly Gingaman on these days, but I've been watching Goranger and Changeman on Youtube, and even the first episode of Gingaman the other day. What's up with that?
Gingaman getting subs? That sounds wonderful! Sadly, I can tell you what's going, because, while I did use to frequent the Sentai General on /m/, I've focused on watching everything animated of UC Gundam. If you need someone to point you to subs or help you brainstorm, you should try your luck in the general.