/lit/ - Literature

>>8298228
Hamlet
King Lear
Paradise Lost
The Divine Comedy
Infinite Jest
Faust
In Search of Lost Time
Illiad/Odyssey
Gravity's Rainbow

Chris Chans ED page

>>8298228
The Greeks

>>8298228
I'm unironically convinced that Infinite Jest will be among these in about 50-100 years just because it reflects our current time period so well. As writing quality and care for plot deteriorates as today's millennials inevitably bastardize education, on the off chance that civilization is still around in 1,000 years I think Infinite Jest will be read to reflect on the many absurdities of people in this time with regards to entertainment, constant stimulation, addictive behavior, etc. This is the first era in human history with such an extreme emphasis on entertainment and stimulation and I think it will be studied.

Haruki Murakami

>>8298228
Tao Lin

This thread.

>>8298228
Houellebecq

>>8298228
Probably some shit like this.

>>8298287
He might be caught in the transition point, since Gen Z will make 90s seem like carriage riders. The new generation are cyborgs pretty much

The AI gods who devoured us will read Nick Land and laugh.

There won't be anyone around to read anything in 50 years.

>implying those who can read and write won't be killed

>>8298236
>work from today

>>8298244
You have just opened a well of shameful nostalgia. I am now watching a video of a sardonic millenial watching Chris Chan videos. Fuck.

my dairy desu

>>8298228
harry potter

>>8298228
We're not reading anything from 1016 now. Why do we think that 3016 will be reading anything from now?

>>8298701

This is almost a good question if u weren't such a faggot

>>8298228
>in 1000 years people will still read

>>8298779
Honestly they might be.

>>8298701
Yes we are, we are still reading the bible, and homer, and shakespeare. 1,016 was not that long ago.

>>8298810
>Shakespeare

>>8298701
but the g-greeks...
>>8298779
>>8298783
they'll download the whole text and be able to process a 1000pg work in less than a second along with all art criticism on it that ever has been written

>>8298287
As a millennial I think IJ most accurately captures the zeitgeist, but only so much as to put it on the same level as American Psycho. Also, ignore my opinion because I'm a millennial.

Atlas Shrugged

>>8298228
Anon's Collected Shitposts.

>>8298236
>Infinite Jest
lol

>>8298228
>poured tooth paste between pages 709 and 710
>called that bitch Infinite Crest

>>8298228
The Bible. There will always be morons looking for meaning in a pointless existence.

>>8298228
David Foster Wallace
William Vollmann
Tao Lin
Jonathan Franzen

Pretty sure if people are still around in 1000 they won't know how to read at all, with dysgenic fertility at an all time high and natural selection undone by welfare health. Cancer no doubt will continue to strike the young, and reading pinnochio or harry potter will be an act of sublime erudition. Probably humanity has three or four shit centuries left.

>>8298228
sicp

>>8300444
witnessed.
and perhaps this.

Neuroaestheticsare just around the corner m8s

>>8298236
Not sure if this is bait or if you're pseud to this fucking extent.

>>8299703
>>8300444

These

>>8298701
Tale of Genji
stuff by Avicenna

>>8298228
Niggers cant read.

>>8298228
A Norwegian In The Family

>>8299703
No one's going to be reading Franzen in 50 years. He was never anything more than a passing fad.

>>8298287
>Relax don't do it
>When you want to go to it
>Relax don't do it
>When you want to come
>Relax don't do it
>Wen you want to come
>When you want to come

>>8300668
Nor fuck with Jesus. Too bad the world will be muslim unless the chinese do something about it

>>8298810
Those books were before that date. Read the thread title again and see what the person you were responding to you meant.

>>8298779
>in 1000 years people

George Orwell's 1984
H G Wells Time Machine

>>8300444

> natural selection undone by welfare health

No, you dip. If anything inheritance slows the process of natural selection but in any case there's no degeneration.

Archived 4chan, found on an ancient hard drive during an archeological dig of "The Great Crater". This will be the basis of their entire misunderstanding of 21st century culture from this single surviving source.

>>8300984

Please this. Oh my lawd pls this.

>>8298401
Post the epub pynchas. We'll read it if you post it

>>8300984
as far as misunderstandings go, it could be worse desu
reddit

>>8298701
Safarnama, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, Decretum Burchardi, Leningrad Codex

>>8300984
>tfw our descendants mistake baneposting as a legit religion/form of art and is revived in a new movement

>>8302720
>People will be learning about baneposting in history classes

>>8301442
No you won't lol. Don't lie to the poor bastard.

>>8303063
You know what, you're right

>>8302789
Neo-banism becomes trendy among adolescent pseudo-intellectuals in universities circa the year 3000.

>>8300980
Not that anan, but what do you mean? Ive been worrying about this stuff for a while, care to explain to a clueless anon?

>>8298228
>implying the human race will still exist in 1000 years
>implying that even if it was, people would still be willing and able to read books

Reading will be an antiquated, extinct process and only mentioned in passing in psychic-downloads for those whose occupations require some familiarity with the concept. Humanity will be a completely image based culture that will use augmented brain technology to transmit inormation and feelings. Speech will be seen as primitive and shameful

>>8298287
I've never read the book, but I might consider reading because of what you said. This is the first time someone has ever gotten my thoughts of this generation 100% correct. We live in a society of constant pleasure. Thanks anon

>>8299520
Get out of here.