Why is contemporary culture, not only /lit/related, riddled with "subversion", "deconstruction", and "witty tropes manipulation"? Have we run out of creativity?

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Anonymous Sat Sep 15 13:48:33 2018 No.11789150 [Reply] [Original]

Why is contemporary culture, not only /lit/related, riddled with "subversion", "deconstruction", and "witty tropes manipulation"?
Have we run out of creativity?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 13:53:14 2018 No.11789175 It's nothing new, the modernists started this a hundred years ago. Just look at Borges.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 13:54:41 2018 No.11789192 Western civ has shot its wad. Now it can only rehash its greatest hits.

Anonymous Sat Sep 15 14:05:29 2018 No.11789249

When you reduce everything to their constitutive elements, or at least believe you have, then all that remains in the creative process is to arrange those elements in "creative" ways.
What your complaint really is about is the sterility of this mechanistic view of everything, even the creative process.

As long as we have this machine symbol, with its individual and separate parts working together but independently, as the basis of our very reality, then nothing will truly change

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 18:11:45 2018 No.11790321 Was it ever different? In any case, the "witty tropes manipulation" surely was always there. Today the references in a 1950's book just go over your head.

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