/lit/ - Literature

>>15157957
Hey OP, I made that chart.

Here's a chart another anon made

>>15157964
Add Lolita to fiction

wonder if you made this as well

>>15157957

"Strip malls. Limitless chancres on the American landscape. The countless, fathomless Niagara of strip malls. They are all the same. Dunkin' Donuts. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's. Radio Shack, Long John Silver's, Arby's, Hardee's, Krispy Kreme, Baskin-Robbins, Dippin' Dots, Carvel."

-9/11 hijacker and architectural student Mohammad Atta, describing the American strip malls he hates while moving constantly through America to obtain pilot training and coordinate the future attack, in the fictionalized novel-biography ATTA, by Jarett Kobek

第一Prologue
In the year 2005 the McDonald’s Corporation’s legal counsel sent a memo to the board, informing them of the current state of Supreme Court jurisprudence. The In-house counsel, having outsourced their actual work, spent their time crafting an argument that, because corporations had rights as regular persons, the McDonald’s corporation could run for president. It was put to a vote by the board and approved by the vast majority of shareholders that it would conduct a pilot test of running for president. The same memo provided that, because money was considered speech, they could, in fact, provide a free small drink with proof of voting for Mcdonald’s. The election of 2008 was by far the most one sided election in the history of the united states. Under the new Party, Mcdonald’s ushered in a new era of corporate control.

Leading to what is now known as…

BURGERpunk
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“Hey Jen, why not log on past midnight and help us develop this cool new Burgerpunk aesthetic?” he whined through the McChatApp as he poured himself another few fingers of bottom shelf margarita mix, his sunglasses adjusting themselves, somehow nerdily. Leftenant Jackson was not his favorite rum, and that was all they had left before the bombardiers came to restock the McBooze Drive-Thru car wash. He didn’t have enough Buddy Bucks to pick up the tequila or tRiple sec to go along with it so he decided on pure vitriolic hate to get through the bottle. He ripped a fat, sick cloud from his Hondo Vape box. “Couuuuuuuuuuuugh pfft huyik,” he coughed pitifully before burping up his margarita mix. His almond tomato cheesy surprise vape juice didn’t mix well with straight margarita mix, who would have guessed.

>>15157981
this made me laugh thank you

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.

>>15157964
convenience store woman would be sushipunk