what is the worst form of literature?

[Anonymous No.12258072]

>pop science
>pop history
>pop biography
>former snl cast member memoir
>self help

[Anonymous No.12258080]

>>12258072

Psuedo-Renaissance man wannabe.

[Anonymous No.12258089]

>>12258080
What is an example of this?

[Anonymous No.12258175]

>>12258072
why are scientists slavishly obsessed with who found what and constantly name dropping shit? imagine someone talking about math behaving like that. absolutely pathetic and cringe

[Anonymous No.12258178]

Pop-anything in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.12258179]

>>12258072
>former snl cast member memoir
haha norm macdonald is such a fag

[Anonymous No.12258191]

>>12258179
Yeah. Let’s kill him.

[Anonymous No.12258194]

>>12258072
Pop-psychology

[Anonymous No.12258198]

Autobiographies written by public figures who aren’t even close to being old yet. For god’s sake Michelle couldn’t you have waited a little while to reflect on your time as First Lady before writing a book? It comes off as extremely egotistical.

[Anonymous No.12258205]

>>12258194
This. Most pop-psychology, I've realised, is actually written by legitimate psychologists, but I still hate it

[Anonymous No.12258210]

>>12258205
>>12258194
the games people play is kind of fun though. realize its an oldie though

[Anonymous No.12258294]

>>12258072
all books are self help books

[Anonymous No.12258312]

>>12258294
What the..

[Anonymous No.12258324]

>>12258198
I guess she was too down-to-earth to name her book "Being Michelle Obama" so she went with "Becoming" instead

[Anonymous No.12258340]

>>12258072
LitRPG or whatever the fuck it's called

[Anonymous No.12258356]

>>12258175
I guess it's a consequence of the culture of publication that has arisen in the nineteenth century and grown exponentially over the past 30 years. Nowadays you need to publish a lot, regularly (sometimes without much regard for quality), get lots of citations and possibly cite a lot of people to get science cred.

Sad thing is it's not only the pseud that do this anymore. I distinctly remember hearing one of my uni prof, who was tenured and had graduates degrees in both maths and philosphy, and who was generally as intellectually elitist as it gets, say to one of his PhD student: "In the near future you'll have to get used to submit even the easy stuff for publication".

[Anonymous No.12258371]

>>12258072
Pop science because it presents itself as legitimate science and people eat it up

[Anonymous No.12258400]

>>12258198
Its just mindless cash grab, taking advantage of the current political climate and "racial instability" in the US.
She knows that she will be forgotten in the future because she did so little of importance, so in order to sell she had to make it now that everyone still knows her.

[Anonymous No.12258421]

Media studies, verbal diarrhea for pseuds who think it's more intellectual to read about a film/song instead of actually watching/listening to it.

[Anonymous No.12258451]

>>12258072
I really hate the specific brand of pop history/biography that seems to dominate NYT best-of lists. My grandfather bought me a David McCoullagh book and it was basically 600 pages of "Benjamin Franklin walked briskly down the Paris street; it was a languid evening and the scent of lilac was in the air"–type bs. So many of these so-called "historians" need to stop trying to write prose bc they all suck. There seems to be an entire industry based on facilitating the intellectual masturbation of neoliberal pseuds.

[Anonymous No.12258470]

>>12258421
Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.12258525]

pop-politics
pop-anything from the humanites/social sciences
polemics
self-help
houellebecq
post 80's anglophone "literature"

>*mouth-breathing intensifies*

[Anonymous No.12258530]

>>12258421
that's common practice with books though

[Anonymous No.12258537]

>>12258530
Media studies is a field entirely dedicated to it though.

[Anonymous No.12258551]

navy seal biographies ghost written by san fransisco fart huffers

[Anonymous No.12259007]

>>12258072
I would say any pop version of an actual academic subject (for lack of a better term) is trash. I hate the simplification of what are actually incredibly complex fields as it basically spreads false information by giving people the false notion they really understand things. I think pop fiction (which in my mind is synonymous with things like YA and genre fiction) are ultimately fine. They might not be as worthwhile to read as what /lit/ would call real literature but they’re not detrimental

[Anonymous No.12259444]

>>12258421
Do you think Kubrick would've punched the author of this in the face?

[Anonymous No.12259750]

>>12258089
Literally any book you find at an airport book store.

[Anonymous No.12260058]

>>12258072
Black American literature. You read one you've pretty much read them all. It's all the same self-pitying trash. Even African literature has gems that I enjoyed reading because it wasn't just "Wahhhh I'm black, it's so hard!"