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cringe

This is our 6th thread. We have become exceedingly efficient at it. Like a drive thru at lunch time.

Based and redpilled OP. Keep up the good work for the future of burgerpunk.

>>13315533
Thanks, and Bookmarked!
Don't let the vandals deter you.

>>13315983
jesus fucking christ. The absolute mcmadlad.

>>13315533
Thanks, and bookmarked!
Don't let the vandals deter you.

>>13315533
What is this project?

>>13316013
>Taco Bell nacho fries
The machine does not understand irony. The sale is recorded the same no matter your intention. It has received your sacrifice and cares not for your desires. You cannot mock what does not feel; in trying, you only mock yourself. Soon we will all be apes.

>>13316030

It's a fictionalized story based on real world events collaboratively written by all of us.

The chosen genre of the story is burgerpunk.

>>13315533
ATTENTION BurgerPunks!
I have copied over what I subjectively believe to be the best writing in the Google doc and placed it under source control on GitHub.
The unfortunate reality is that Google docs is a terrible way to collaborate on writing. This is because Google docs is not source controlled, meaning that anyone can vandalize it in myriad ways (mass replace or mass deletion) undoing hours of writing through their "creative" trolling. In contrast, hosting the project on GitHub allows us to keep the movement alive while it is still nascent lest it become stillborn due to (what I believe are) idiot /pol/ and /tv/ trolls.
This is not an elitist project in any sense and I do NOT claim to know what is best for BurgerPunk or that I am now the Burger King who gatekeeps the project.
I am INVITING any anon who makes a real contribution as an HTML file to join the project as a contributor on GitHub and help me curate the project.
That being said, I cannot do this myself, and I CANNOT continue to sift the Google Doc every hour. I NEED other technically minded anons and writers to assist me if the BurgerPunk project is to succeed.
TLDR: Google Docs is shit. Go to https://github.com/burgerpunk/burgerpunk.github.io and make pull requests!

>>13316478
>>13316478

Will those with pull request ability accept submissions from this thread?

>>13316478
only problem is that is not "anonymous"

>>13316580
Yes, if I make you a contributor, that means that you can check in other people's writing as pull requests and add whatever you want. If you start blatantly deleting or mass replacing, I will revoke your contributor status and roll back the branch before the madness started.

>>13316610
Just make a quick throw-away email account with https://protonmail.com/ and then a throw-away github account (don't use your work account for this if you have one). It is about as anonymous as it gets (given the compromise we must make to deal with trolls ravaging the document, which will only get worse with time).

Is LA gated society burgerpunk?

>>13316645
>(given the compromise we must make to deal with trolls ravaging the document, which will only get worse with time)

SUGGESTION

Submissions my be submitted via text box here for inclusion in the doc/git/cannon.

>>13315533
>https://github.com/burgerpunk/burgerpunk.github.io

Where are the footnotes nigger

>>13316720
Posting your suggestion in the thread is perfectly fine with me, just give me a (you) and I will probably read it or alternatively you can email it here: burgerpunk@airmail.cc

The only problem with this is that I will have to be the judge of if your content is sufficiently burgerpunk. I do not want to do this, since I have already asserted that I do NOT claim to know what is best for BurgerPunk or that I am some kind of community manager, but if your post gets multiple affirmative replies or if I personally like it, I will format it and add it to the website.

Still, I think that having a team of trusted contributor anons that process incoming submissions is easier for me and overall better for the project.

>>13316759
As you can verify yourself the document is currently deleted by a troll. I personally really like many of the footnotes and might work on adding them back in. However, doing that manually takes a lot of time and I do not wish to make burgerpunk a full time job (which is why I need contributors that can make the project easier to manage).

>>13315557
>Like a drive thru at lunch time.
Nice anon, very nice.

>>13315557
>This is our 6th thread. We have become exceedingly efficient at it
we have become... Burgerpunk

what's all this?
can anybody give me a quick rundown?

>>13317078
Speculative fiction set in the hollow, consumerist world of America between 1996 and 2006.

So is this just a group rewrite of Society of the Spectacle aimed at self hating Americans or what

>>13317078
I don’t think anyone really knows anymore. It started with just a picture of one of those Midwest freeways full of consumer service fast food joins and petrol stations with the phrase “burgerpunk” with it. Now everyone has taken it in different directions. Scifi, modernism, post modernism, raunchy romantic, surrealist detachment, overly complicated topic of analysis that is itself the topic, haters trying to make it cringe or prove others theory’s wrong.


But it’s getting the creative juices flowing for everyone, and unlike the McDonald’s ice cream machine, people keep churning weird and different shit out.

>>13317466
>footnotes
>legal documentation

Anon, you make me hard.

>>13317506
That's the beauty of it. Have It Your Way.

There’s an ongoing debate about whether critics should even write negative reviews, and it’s only getting louder. No well-meaning writer enjoys panning the work of another, but anything other than an honest appraisal would turn critics into publicists, and the truth is—despite a great cover and a clever premise—there are Wikipedia pages more narratively compelling than BURGERPUNK. The map on the endpapers is the best part of the book.

>>13317501
based

>>13317539
I think anyone wanting to make a longer narrative figured out to do it themselves instead of adding to a document that gets deleted every 12 hours. It’s hard to provide accurate and articulate criticism when every time someone wrote anything it got replaced by McNiggers or large swaths of random Chinese and smut.

Nice thanks for adding my burger noir op. The only thing with the github is that you do lose the graphics and adverts, which I think added quite a bit of flare to the google doc.

>In this so-called “burgerpunk”, we arrive again in a Burroughs-esque movement that claims to be original; to subvert expectations by displaying a narrative of extreme consumerism and hedonism; by displaying a narrative based on the power of the corporation under capitalism, claiming to uphold these movements by displaying them as intensely as possible; as saturated as possible. Yet, what do we find? That this movement is deceitful: that it denigrates what it upholds by intensifying it. It is not making an argument for its cause, it is making a radical and ridiculous argument for what is being argued against, to instill that what is being argued against is ridiculous in and of itself. They are the movements of the strawman.
good as an appearance. Fails in it's essence.
JG Ballard already mastered and imporved upon burgerpunk with his own styling, and with an essence that isn'r hypocritical.

>>13317539

Why should professional writers write negative reviews when so many wannabe writers can write negative reviews on Goodreads? Or you know, if they get enough people on Twitter to hate the writer for whichever reason this week, then it can get a bunch of one star reviews from people never read it?

Sorry, i hate goodreads. Also, i was looking forward to this book, so this review makes me sad. I’ll probably just wait for it to be a miniseries on Netflix or something.

>>13317466
This looks pretty good. Are you planning on adding it to the project sometime?
>>13317585
I fixed the problem of the trolls, smut and ctrl-H idiots by version controlling the project. The google docs is dead, and will probably stay dead. We now NEED more contributors that know the basics of git and html.
>>13317594
Check your email. Also I will be adding some of the images and ads later (I had originally added most of the ads to the google doc myself). The problem is that adding images is a whole layer of complexity and I would rather wait until we have a stable base of contributors before doing it. Also this is personal opinion, but since we are on a literature and writing forum, we should be able to express ourselves eloquently in text without the assistance of images.

>>13315533
Yikes kinda violates opsec for us anti-establishment types

>>13317722

Post your submissions here anon.

>>13316801
>>13317520
It would be interesting to see if anyone's going to fork the project. Have it your way, indeed.

>>13317600
Some relevant Ballard Quotes
>I was saying that if, as a science fiction writer, you ask me to make a prediction about the future, I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul

>think we’ve now gone beyond politics into a new and potentially much more dangerous realm where non-political factors will pull the levers of power – these may be vast consumer trends, strange surges in the entertainment culture that dominates the planet, quasi-religious eruptions of the kind we saw at Diana’s death, mass paranoia about new diseases, aberrant movements in popularised mysticism, and the growing dominance of the aesthetic (which I prophesied twenty years ago). The only ballot box common to all these is the cash register, an extremely accurate gauge of consumer preference in the very short term but useless beyond the next five minutes.
All this leaves the human race extremely vulnerable to any master manipulator. I’ve remarked elsewhere that messiahs usually emerge from deserts, and I expect the next Adolf Hitler or Mao to emerge from the wilderness of the vast North American and European shopping malls. The first credit-card Buddha, at its best, or, at its worst, the first credit-card Stalin.

>There’s a huge bias in the English novel towards the city as subject matter and setting for the novel. I take quite the contrary view, needless to say. I regard the city as a semi-extinct form. London is basically a nineteenth-century city. And the habits of mind appropriate to the nineteenth century, which survive into the novels set in the London of the twentieth century, aren’t really appropriate to understanding what is really going on in life today.
I think the suburbs are more interesting than people will let on. In the suburbs you find uncentred lives. The normal civic structures are not there. So that people have more freedom to explore their own imaginations, their own obsessions. And the discretionary spending power to do so. There’s a sort of airport culture – with its transience, its access to anywhere in the world. Social trends of various kinds tend to reveal themselves first in the suburbs. The transformation of British life by television in the sixties took place, most of all, in the suburbs, when VCRs came in. In the suburbs you have nothing to do except watch TV.

>>13317737
oops, all those paragraphs were meant to be quoted. Anyway, the most ambitious thing that burgerpunk can aim for is to do to the fast food worker and her cocooned-by-the-internet patrons what 70s-era Ballard did to the motorway driver and the tower block resident.

Quintessential (core) Burgerpunk media:

Films:
*Idiocracy
*Repo Man

Ephemera/ net:
*Spurdo memes
sports forums?

Literature:
Maybe MicroSerfs?

pls help me expand this

>>13319103

barry hannah

>>13319103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOkQJm_UGM4

MAN how the hell do i make pull request? you know for something thats suppose to critique the overcomplication of whats suppose to be a simple life using this reptillian shit is pretty ironic.

>>13319216

https://github.com/burgerpunk/burgerpunk.github.io

Read the "read me"

da blood of gommies gotta be shed do geep freedum alive

How about airportpunk as one of its close cousins? I guess the main difference would be an accentuated feeling of atomisation/despondency and uprootedness. Any lit, or films on this?

>>13319103
>Spurdo memes
I don't know about this one. If we're talking core Spurdo, those are making fun of Finnish stereotypes. But the "American Spurdo/American bear" memes are burgerpunk.

>>13319216
it hurts my soul that I have to learn to do things I don't want to have to learn to do (github) to do the things I do want to do (share writing).

TK4PREZ 2k19

>>13319962

goddamned burgerites !

>>13319216
Github doesn't validate accounts with a cock.li email address, does anyone know a anon-ish email provider that github will validate?

>>13315533
Why would you post videogames in the literature subreddit?

>>13317501

based, but its still a good endeavour

>>13315557
Pathetic post