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/lit/ Who is the voice of our generation?

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>> No.1311292

our generation isn't articulate enough to speak

>> No.1311296

Tao Lin. I'm not even joking.

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1311297

Eh oh, Po speak for genration.

>> No.1311301

Perez Hilton

>> No.1311303

Dunno about you youngins, but the voice of MY generation was DFW.

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No one really comes to mind...

>> No.1311311

>>1311296

TBH I could see it.

But then again, we are at our (humanity's) least apathetic state right now, so that kinda pushes it away from Tao's style.

>> No.1311315

George Bush

>> No.1311318

There isn't one.

>> No.1311325

I'd have to say there isn't one. There isn't one person leading our generation into a new era

>> No.1311330

Pynchon.

>> No.1311332

Of your generation? Without a doubt, Sarah Palin.

>> No.1311338

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens

>> No.1311354

It's kind of sad but Glenn Beck.

>> No.1311364

Lady Gaga.

Don't deny the truth.

>> No.1311572

>>1311364

Only if you're American. I'm not going to lie- I don't mind her. She's entertaining, and that's exactly what she's supposed to be.

I sometimes think of Obama's pre-presidential speeches when I think of our generation.

>> No.1311579

>>1311364
True.

>> No.1311583

david foster wallace- so constantly upset at how the world he was born into was that he killed himself.

kids dont try this at home...your too lame

>> No.1311589

>>1311289

I AM.

>> No.1311681

Kanye West according to Kanye West and /mu/

>> No.1311682

>>1311681
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

>> No.1311698

>>1311682
oh yes

>> No.1311733

anonymous is the voice of our generation. No, not the *chan anonymous, but the power of anonymity in general, which is a function of the social changes brought on by the internet.

>> No.1311746

>>1311681
THIS

david foster wallace never got a pitchfork 10.0

>> No.1311750

>>1311746
Pitchfork is gay

>> No.1311752

>>1311746
david wallace never sucked off the entire staff of pitchfork...(/mu/ suddenly has the "omg" he's write look fall over them)

>> No.1311758

ITT: retards and children

>> No.1311787

Unpublished and unknown, sitting in a dark room somewhere.

>> No.1311789

>>1311733
fucking this.

>> No.1311797

>>1311787

that would be me then

>> No.1311828

>>1311787

SERIOUSLY, ME TOO.

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>>1311303
>mfw I had to wiki it and he's at the bottom of the list

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1311919

>infinite jest ? more like infinite jesting

>> No.1311925

This whole "voice of a generation" is a fairly new contrivance, and it's one that's destined for failure.

>> No.1311949

>>1311925

It's academic circle jerking of the highest order. Bored critics and lit professors say this kind of shit with the intention of having their name affixed to the powerful authors they wish they could be.

>> No.1312036

I was reading a Time article from a few years ago where you used to have "voice of a generation" authors like Hemingway, Kerouac, Salinger, but the last few authors that could be described like that were Bret Easton Ellis and Coupland, and that was nearly twenty years ago.

DFW for thirty somethings is probably the voice of the 1990s, but that's bit of a posthumous designation. Eggers and Palahniuk are a bit niche.

I'd say literature become too marginalized and too fragmented to produce a "voice of a generation", and that's been the case since the mid 90s.

>> No.1312134

>>1312036

>and that's been the case since the mid 90s

actually i would argue that it has been the case since the 70s. contemporary youth are finding their "voice" through different mediums now. literature is no longer that vehicle.

>> No.1312136

Generations have never had voices. "Voices of a generation" are an artificial contrivance for literary critics to pigeon-hole an entire decade, 20 years after the event.

>> No.1312140

>>1311572

>I sometimes think of Obama's pre-presidential speeches when I think of our generation.

You mean bullshit polished so highly that it seems to mean something, if you really really want it to?

Yeah, I guess that's a pretty accurate voice of our generation.

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>>1311354
>>1311364
>>1311572

WHAT KIND MINDLESS FAGGOTS GET INTO /lit/?

WHY?

>> No.1312183

>>1312136

FUCKING THIS. It's society's way of cherry picking the author and genres to keep everyone in line and to keep the less desired types away from being mentioned in history books and in "canon". It's a fucking mechanism.