/lit/ - Literature

>>6707858
Nooope.

>>6707876
so what do you think it will focus on?

>>6707858
people live fast paced lives and lack the constitution to read through slow, plodding novels that are considered classics

people like short, fast paced literature that is hypersexualized and would be considered farcical by contemporary critics

it will be generalist

it will be a story of a guy who works in a office, is somewhat frustrated with his life, live on a big city (probably New york), had some affairs on the past but now doesn't really want to know about it. It will be full of cynicism about nothing that really matters (making fun of tv shows, per example), because it will be inclusive and very social political

>>6707949
Like family guy.

>>6707882
Zones of danger.

>>6707858
I think you've got it backwards. This generations (by which I assume you mean people who are currently children) literature will focus on the past and new conservatism. The impact of the internet, the overblown farce of the modern world, and the absurdity of the information age are the fodder of those born in the 70's and 80's.

it will be spergy, faggy, degenerate and masturatory
like this place

geography. Specifically the antagonisms between urban, suburban and rural spaces. This isn't necessarily a new topic, but I have a hunch that many of today's young (American) writers will come from a rural setting.

>>6707957
sounds comfy

>>6707912
Boy have I written the epitome of what you've described.

>>6707882
Brave New World: published 1932
1984: published 1949

I doubt the internet will be the focus.

It will be about... no surprise... human universals. Like usual. And it will be put forth in a manner so clever and genius that we will all sit back and go what the fuck?

And half of /lit/ will call it shit. Because if you can't beat 'em, tell everyone it's below you. Right, ladies?

>>6707968

what about people born in the late 90's/ early aughts
They're going to hit colleges soon, and they're the earliest example of people who grew up in a post-modern, ironic, cynical world

>>6708004
For the horde of plebs, here is the list:

http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

>>6708004
I dont think either of those books cover the experience of the internet at all. I'm mainly referring to the way that the internet has effected the way people interact with each other.

>>6708009
No, they're not. Check out Eightball. Clowes already handled all of that. And it isn't new.

Unfortunately. I was sad by how well he handles it.

imagine infinite jest, but with smartphones

now imagine thousands of MFA douchenozzles toiling away on their own version of this, at least 20 of which will undoubtedly be published to critical acclaim

we're shit and the internet is shit, too.

>>6708025

well they grew up in the internet age
memes were a thing before they were teens

>>6708025

>Clowes already handled all of that.

Miguel de Cervantes already handled all of that.

>>6708009
Transitional. The nineties is a really interesting time period - those born in 92 matured or will mature in a radically different world to those born 98. I don't think you can say the same for any decade before it.

>>6707949
So....John Updike?

The future of literature should focus on distilling many emotions into as few words as possible. There's no need for 300+ pages just to make a point. There's a need to create a good story. I'd like to see the resurgance of well-written short stories. But no one wants to write short stories because they demand no respect and everyone who considers themselves a writer is self-absorbed.

>>6708019
You're right. They don't. But they become more and more relevant every decade. (Decades!)

Jesus fucking Christ, it's "affected".

Also, any snapshot of the internet today will be outdated in 6 months. Snapshots of how people are, though, are always on fleek. So less internet is probably better.

Even Johnny Got His Gun is hard to place. It just leaves out the stuff that would date it.

>>6708047
So... a haiku, then:

Watching white moon face
The stars never feel anger
Blah, blah, blah, the end

Done and done.

>>6708004

Anyone who's in their 20s and is rather well-read can tell you that the internet is essentially just a shiny backdrop for the same agonizing shit that human beings have been doing to each other for centuries.

We'll probably have a few shitty "like Albert Camus, but with Facebooks" but maybe also some "Cormac McCarthys of giant industrial cities ruined by economic and ecologic crises"

>>6707858
It'll be the the artistic equivalent of what James Franco and Shia Labeouf are doing in their professional and personal lives. And in the next century any form of storytelling and art will be banned in western secular societies and considered detrimental to the survival of the human race and we'll usher in a society that will nurture science, math and technology that can only be used to benefit humanity without any entertaining variables. Lunatics will argue that the survival of humanity has always depended on storytelling and that all knowledge is based on the premise to believe and imagine. Religion will be banned after the end goal of globalization has completed with the forces of Christianity, Judaism and Islam joining forces to fight off secularism and reclaim their status in world. These stories will be blur the line between reality and imagination. The narrative perspectives will change and the time and period the occur will no longer be linear.

>>6708060
>Cormac McCarthys of giant industrial cities ruined by economic and ecologic crises


dammit anon, thats the very premise I'm working on!

>>6708060
I hope that I never see those books. Muh douche hackles.

>>6708059

Haikus have always sucked. Poetry is near dead. Short stories can and should make a resurgance. All stories up until the last few centuries (besides plays) were short stories.

>>6708060
>>6708085
>implying this hasn't already been mastered by Delilo in 'Cosmopolis'

>>6708059

ending our romance
she blocked me from contact
carbon monoxide

>>6708085

eh, same here though. Don't worry--Cormac's not the only gothic pessimist with a career ;)

>>6708099
H-how did you know?

>>6707858
It will be a mixture of the philosophy of magic, the classification of tools, the classification of space; gossip; and the phenomenon of tickling.

And it's title: You Need To Know The Answers To Questions You Don't Know The Answers To

Will you read it when I post it in the crit thread?

>>6708111
Lets collab and make the great post national novel!

>>6708128

horribly common behaviour from a certain type of repulsive post-digital individual. i recommend meeting people in real life & reading Hesse.

>>6708140
probably would read

>>6708152
What's wrong with plathticizing my aching mindbrain thoughtthinker? I guess I'm on the bleeding edge of edge. I wonder what it would be like be a pleb lacking dire tragedy burning in the hot white pit of her flashing afterimage generators sustaining andless pain—just a solid rock.

And lo!

>>6708140

this fucker stole the next pinecone manuscript

>>6708140
It's "its".

Will you take me on the Good Tickles, Bad Tickles Book Tour?

>>6708195
shit, I'm about to steal it from him

>>6708180

swiping through tinder, he discovers a profile reading simply "STIMULATE ORGANISM FOR RESPONSE." he begins to sweat

>>6708294
What is Tinder? Is that like Uber for patricians? I have a tingly feeling that it is the direct opposite.

>>6708305
It's like Uber for people who want to validate their physical appearance.

>>6708305
how the fuck do you know about uber but don't know about tinder

>>6708315
Hey baybay, wanna ride? I hope you don't mind the cigarette burns in the upholstery.

>>6707858
look at the alt lit scene

tai pei is the first novel of this generation

>>6708325
Uh übermensch, I meant.

>>6707858
obligatory

>>6707858
they have never lived without it so i doubt it will be about the internet.

>>6708339
but alt lit is dead

>>6707858

Well, for one, blood will rain all over the First World before the end of the century, so I guess the ominous feeling of an imminent end will be a recurring theme in the coming decades.

Possibly satirical and violent short stories about the upper-class.

Disconnection from the real world through emerging technologies, but that's already a recurring subject.

The difficulty to cultivate sensibility in our ever more dehumanizing world, with a few stories of people who succeed.


But yeah, I really think stories about bloody insurrections and fictional revolutionary epics will be a thing.

Check out Von Dorf's "I am"

It makes a point of satiricizing the internet making everyone a snowflake. Even the cover. I didn't really like it bc it's a bit over the top and cliche but I think that's the point given that it's just another guy.

>>6708085

Tbh I'd read it

I actually think that the literature will be quite intricate. Think about it: sub-100 IQ white kids don't make proper literature(if any), the geniuses do.

So we won't have this much facebook-core new realism internetesque wannabe Infinite Jests(not as a whole movement), we 'll have a huge wave of the Human-Condition-In-The-Inhumane-Era new existentialism, further rebellion against dehumanization, lengthy rants about the loss of the very last bits of tradition and religion, and, inevitably, I-wanna-go-back-to-living-in-the-era-before-our-brains-were-synced-with-the-Cloud pieces of idealizing pre-2025 ages as a whole.

>>6710332
OP here, this is what I was mainly guessing it will be like. Just because this generation is (supposedly) dumber doesn't mean there won't be any good literature. There will always be geniuses in every generation.

>>6710345
We gotta hope so

Interest in literature is in decline anyway due to this capitalist post-globalization and all, lack of good authors would be lethal combined with it

>>6710345
this generation isnt dumber

>>6710364
Well, this generation has no intellectual tradition not interest in humanities, so in vernacular we'd say that it's just... dumber

>>6710383
nor*.

>>6710364
>>6710383
Your both wrong stupid hurr derr plppppbt plbbt

>>6710383
>>6710397
nah

>>6710423
xD

>>6707858
>ctrl + F tao lin
>nothing
niggers.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/tao-lin/2011/02/koko-the-talking-gorilla/

>>6710383
I really think you're overestimating how smart past generations were.

>>6710516
Could always be, but you can't deny that emphasis on versatile interests, humanities, tradition and ethics has been decreasing.

>>6710501
Cool image. Were is it from?

>>6710539
people will say the same thing in 100 years, people have been saying the same thing 100 years ago.

>>6710599
Because it's true.

Then eventually religion and ethics will die out and people will stop saying it. It's all linear.