/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12136360]

As many studies say, early maniuplation of digital devices kills creativity and language understanding.

How will this affect to the literature of years to come?

[Anonymous No.12136364]

>>12136360
The world will be Mars 2.0 in a generation, no point worrying about literature

[Anonymous No.12136371]

>>12136364
redpilled

[Anonymous No.12136384]

The age of Plato is over. The age of Gorgias has begun.

[Anonymous No.12136425]

>>12136360
>How will this affect to the literature of years to come?

Even though many of the great writers were from upper-class households, we are going to see a drastic drop in literary quality. They will tell us that the books are good, or even better than those stinky old books, but they wont be.

[Anonymous No.12136572]

We won't have new literature. Instead, we will have more comics and capeshit, videogames, and phone apps.

[Anonymous No.12136577]

Why are you guys always pessimistic about literature? Aren't you guys into literature? Aren't you going to be the vanguard of the next movement? If literature dies it's your fault.

[Anonymous No.12136586]

>>12136384
With the mystery cult of Pythagoras shrouded not just from history but from the times themselves

[Anonymous No.12136608]

This will be the last generation.

[Anonymous No.12136614]

>>12136360
interactivity will surpass literature as a story telling format

[Anonymous No.12136621]

>>12136577
Don’t kid yourself, there are other sites where actual intellectuals and vanguardists meet, but 4channel is a congregation of stunted, low effort miscreants

[Anonymous No.12136635]

Per the recent pieces about the active exclusion of fucking cishet white males reee from the publishing/lit milieu, the Autistic Movement in literature probably won't happen.

>>12136577
EVERY BREATH
by Nicholas Sparks Grand Central
Difficult choices surface when Hope Anderson and Tru Walls meet in a North Carolina seaside town.

[Anonymous No.12136642]

>>12136621
Tell me about those sites

[Anonymous No.12136725]

i can believe this, i got an iphone when i was probably 14 and suddenly i read much less and didn't do as well in school when i'd never been anything but top of my class

[Anonymous No.12136823]

>>12136577
One flower does not make a garden.

[Anonymous No.12136888]

>>12136364
Why Mars and not Venus?

[Anonymous No.12136893]

>>12136621
Well, fess up. What are these sites?

[Anonymous No.12136900]

>>12136725
t. 15

[Anonymous No.12136903]

>>12136893
Idk probably normie Facebook groups ties to MFA programs at good schools. The kind of thing professional writers use to network and socialize.

[Anonymous No.12136914]

>>12136360
>kills creativity and language understanding

Printed media as literature is as ossified a medium as the cage paintings you now see pictures of online

The times are changing, grandpa, the /exit/ is over there. I hear Pessoa was crying about times not being medieval anymore, too.

[Anonymous No.12136922]

>>12136360
>How will this affect to the literature of years to come?

Literature is a doomed medium. The number of people reading books has always been small, but it's going to absolutely plummet over the next few decades.

There will still be people writing, but that will only be because the barrier of entry for actually relevant mediums like film and vidya is too high and they have no choice but to settle for books. Nobody will actually read any of the books that these people write; hell, most of the writers won't read books themselves. In other words, it'll be the exact same situation that we have today.

The best case scenario for writers is that A.I. that can auto generate movies or games based off of a written description becomes widely available and allows us to just abandon literature entirely.

[Anonymous No.12136927]

>>12136823
One flower is proof of the possibility of life though. It’s your job to cultivate the garden and the fact that there are flowers at all should be encouraging.

[Anonymous No.12136932]

>>12136914

[Anonymous No.12136942]

>>12136922
>The best case scenario for writers is that A.I. that can auto generate movies or games based off of a written description becomes widely available and allows us to just abandon literature entirely.

ahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.12136952]

>>12136932
>Not recognizing the irony of responding with a meme picture

/lit/ really is shit these days

[Anonymous No.12136972]

>>12136577
It’s just doomers, man. They just have generally pessimistic attitude. The don’t realize people keep getting English, Humanities, Literature and Creative Writing majors every year. Literature however should be expected to look the same in the 21st century as it did once. Web lit should and has been taking off. The next great liece of lit will be a fanfic or a rap album. There’s no choice, who the fuck cares about another disfunctional bourgeoise family drama.

[Anonymous No.12136986]

>>12136972
>English, Humanities, Literature and Creative Writing majors

90% of those people don't give a shit about about literature or writing. English and Literature have always been the go to "I didn't know what else to pick" meme degrees.

[Anonymous No.12137006]

>>12136914
I will defend my cage paintings to the death, and if I take a few of you millenial falcons with me all the better.

[Anonymous No.12137013]

>>12136360
Literature probably won't survive this century.

People will always have the desire to write, that's never going to change, but I don't think people in even the near future are going to be doing it through traditional literature.

[Anonymous No.12137038]

>>12136972
>The next great liece of lit will be a fanfic or a rap album.
Absolute state of lit and /lit/ jfc

[Anonymous No.12137045]

>>12136577
I don't read any more..

[Anonymous No.12137804]

>>12136360
>As many studies say, early maniuplation of digital devices kills creativity and language understanding.

Is this really that true? Sounds like correlation, like kids who happen to be around devices alot have lazy parents

just because your sibling/newphew is a little zoomer brat doesnt mean the generation is doomed

[Anonymous No.12138369]

I think conventional literature will narrow due to more creative people being drawn to pop culture and other mediums. I do not believe it will disappear, however.
For example, I have been rereading Homestuck and it does many things similarly to a conventional literary novel, e.g. experimental structure, emphasis on form, wordplay, and prose rather than plot and trying to be "commerical"; its refusal of traditional storytelling techniques engenders innovation, even if some of it is intentional.
I am applying some exaggeration of literary quality, however the qualities are there.

[Anonymous No.12138408]

>>12138369
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmJWLkDB4zI

[Anonymous No.12138520]

>>12138408
Those weird faggots were entertaining, at least

[Anonymous No.12138528]

>>12138408
GIRUGAMESH

[Anonymous No.12138560]

>>12138369
i totally agree with this. i think homestuck actually revitalized my appreciation for reading as a total brainless teenager. even if it doesn't have much literary merit, it does share a lot of traits with postmodernist literature.

[Anonymous No.12138577]

>>12136360
literature is where depressed faggots searching for meaning or pompous asshole go

long as those exist we'll have "deep" literature; im interested in seeing if deep videogames or interactive worlds will ever come to be, if that's that case literature may be replaced, but possibly by something much better

[Anonymous No.12138763]

>>12136572
pic very related

[Anonymous No.12139222]

Are you people stupid, the average person has always been dumb and illiterate, is nothing new.

[Anonymous No.12139243]

honest question. why read when there's audiobooks? fuck reading, its boring, I can lift while Proust is babbling

[Anonymous No.12139248]

>>12139243
Me macho me lift ooga booga.

[Anonymous No.12139260]

>>12136952
>using memes on 4channel is low-brow
He's not wtong though, you compare literature to cave paintings. The state of literature is bad, but the fact that were here proves its not that bad, right?
>look at me, biting the bait

[Anonymous No.12139335]

>>12136360
source of the study, OP?

[Anonymous No.12139345]

>>12136972
I can't tell if this post is legit or a parody.

[Anonymous No.12139360]

>>12136972
>The next great liece of lit will be a fanfic or a rap album.
I can smell the tofu through the screen.

[Anonymous No.12139378]

>>12136360
It will kill it hopefuly. The time for writing has passed, and you are all wasting your time. Just read the good old stuff and stop pretending.

[Anonymous No.12139470]

>>12139243
If you don’t enjoy reading then don’t read. I don’t know what you expect people to tell you.