/lit/ - Literature

>>17734183
I think another anon made this one. Neat use of the bar code.

>>16398934
Nice analysis anon. Every couple months I'll open the 200 page collaborative document we all made and laugh my ass off. Some of that shit they wrote was genius.

>>15421571

burgerpunk has been described as the aesthetic reconciliation of the postmodernist individual recognizing the cognitive dissonance between the vast nature of corporate service-based globalization and the individualist nature of consumption forced upon them by the very nature and propaganda of their capitalist benefactors. The genre's backdrop explores the conflict between traditional american sensibilities inflated to a caricature by exaggerated use of freeway systems, suburban growth, and franchise based food products against the cynical nature of the average american blooming into a genuine need for individualized and personalized culture after slowly exchanging their ancestor's cultural heritage for their own force-fed culture of ease of access and frugality. Issues of hopelessness, automation, and complacency contrast the information provided through constant access to media and propagandized geopolitical news. The genre itself, becoming a meta commentary on other fantasy or science fiction based genres by using the actual occurring landscape as the basis for literary escape.

As a metastatic reorientation of burgerpunk, post-neo-burgerpunk emerged under the umbrella of commodification for the burgerpunk sensibility in mid-2019. Post-burgerpunk asks questions of the object-orientation of the burgerpunk School of thought, such as: does object fetishism exist without the physical object? How will the streamlining of service-oriented positions affect consumer gestalt? Is there life after burgerpunk?

In post-burgerpunk, the burgertheorist substitutes the low-quality consumer goods, with all its accompanying sense-experience and immediate physical health hazards, with the post-industrial information commodity. Where there were pimpled minimum-wage fry cooks, there are now rows of sleek touch-interfaced kiosks. Where there were gas fumes now hums the Tesla roadster. Purely ethereal forms take the place of physical sense-referents. The freeways remain, but the thrill of driving is minimized. Consumption is retained in intensity, but replaced in its formulation.

The question comes to be: did the object ever matter? And in this sense the informational commodity supersedes the consumer good. The subscription secures the means of consumption, but the commodity is ever-present for consumption. All modes exterior to the subject-object, consumer-commodity relation can then be safely expunged.

It should not be surprising then that the model of continued purchase and return should be replaced by automated subscriptions, in order to remove the choice from each forking path in consumption. The consumer need no longer to even decide yes or no, but only to remain inert within the system of automation. It might be said in the future: the mobility scooter had to roll, so that the Amazon™ drone could fly.

previous>>13287339

get in here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEaYAmDMHSmEDzB96Etxe52DAA61rjmBQVfSno_akgk/edit