/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17445104]

What is burger punk?

[Anonymous No.17445110]

my life desu

[Anonymous No.17445124]

blade runner but without virtual girlfriends

[Anonymous No.17445206]

>>17445104
Me, my brother, and my friends used to walk to the Walmart over the overpass and play wallball off those big WAL * MART trucks. The balls bounced farter, and sometimes would come off at weird angles due to the dents that way; it was so much more fun. Then we would walk to Carl Jrs and each order a different meal and drink and have a big 12-year old potluck. I am very happy just thinking about it, I will never again live a day as fulfilling and perfect as those.

[Anonymous No.17445223]

>>17445104
gonna keep shilling this book i just bought

it's more "prolepunk of an american flavor" but it kinda falls into this area of thought and experience

[Anonymous No.17445224]

The future but now.
Cyberpunk but lame.
Aesthetic reconciliation of Americana.

[Anonymous No.17445249]

>>17445124
We have VR headsets now, anon.

[Anonymous No.17445250]

>>17445104
This is just function over form. It's a typical highway turnoff. Food/Gas/Lodging. Sometimes they put the motels at a different stop. There is no reason to make it look nice because everyone is just passing through.

[Anonymous No.17445274]

>>17445104
It's the jpeg you just posted, nothing more. People saw it, thought it was cool, tried to make it into a literary movement, and failed. Places/companies/institutions like the ones described by the pic are all so soulless that making a literary movement out of them would literally be making something out of nothing.

[Anonymous No.17445337]

>>17445104
It was a developing underground writing subculture but all the key people were American and were thus inevitably shot.

[Anonymous No.17445409]

saw this getting shilled on /lit/ last month
>the whole story is just the inside of a truck cab as the guy buys burgers and smokes
and is cute and funny

[Anonymous No.17445420]

I bet that area is comfy at night.

[Anonymous No.17445490]

>>17445409
Oh that sounds comfy af

[Anonymous No.17445555]

Deep fried hyperreality efficiently wrapped in plastic and smelling sweetly of meat. With various signifiers of Americana strewn about, cowboy hats, cornfields, baseballs, highways.

[Anonymous No.17445566]

[Anonymous No.17445609]

>>17445409
Posters of /lit wrote this, yes?

[Anonymous No.17445633]

>>17445490
>>17445490
I picked up the Kindle version for a couple bucks because of the /lit/ project spam (worth it) and now I want to become a mormon truck driver

t. not even american

[Anonymous No.17445642]

>>17445566
That's a Value Menu Construct right there. Getting eulogized by a McDonald's franchise. More bugergothic than burgerpunk.

[Anonymous No.17445644]

>>17445104
It's a short story series that the lit zine faggot tried to steal as his own from the real author.

[Anonymous No.17445669]

>>17445609
Yeah, and I like to think of it as the spirtual successor to that most where it's the guy getting gas while he smokes thinking "with a car you can go anywhere" or something to that effect.

anyone got a screencap of that btw?

[Anonymous No.17445685]

>>17445669
Sounds interesting. And since it's cute and funny, I'll take a look.

Perhaps I shall shill my own novel on here once I write it.

[Anonymous No.17445703]

>>17445104
Spazing out over a fake magazine "stealing" your work and then having a three day long hissy fit.

[Anonymous No.17445834]

>>17445669

[Anonymous No.17445861]

>>17445834
All of my Burgerpunk writing was inspired by this style. It makes me laugh so hard. Every time.

[Anonymous No.17445885]

yeah >>17445409 and >>17445834 definitely both have the same energy to them

[Anonymous No.17445994]

>>17445104
for the hundredth time that image is heavily shopped

[Anonymous No.17446077]

>>17445994
Inaccurate it is not, though.

[Anonymous No.17446135]

>>17445669
>>17445834
>>17445885
Reading that again, I love it. I can't wait to dive into this.

[Anonymous No.17446403]

>>17445250
nice compulsive justification, loser

[Anonymous No.17446612]

>>17445206
Yuuup I have a fond memory of walking home from school with the lads and grabbing some Arizonas and then climbing to the roof of the shut-down supermarket and drinking them up there while gazing out at the strip mall around us. Peak burgerland moments

[Anonymous No.17446637]

>>17446135
This is actually pretty good. Despite its obvious need of some editing. This is very well-written.

[Anonymous No.17446653]

>>17446612
Walking past the dead mall after school to go to ihop free pancake day with the bois. Man, there’s a real comfy nostalgia to that kind of Burgerpunk. It’s more, Americana, maybe? Interesting.

[Anonymous No.17446690]

>>17446135
what are you diving into to?
is this truckstop aesthetic the new meme fad or something

I keep seeing
>>17445409
get posted here the last few days but i can't even figure out what it's supposed to be about

[Anonymous No.17446714]

>>17445104
Seriously, when the fuck did people start calling stuff <blank>punk like anything besides cyber punk/steam punk was never a thing?

Hell there is almost nothing punk about steam punk.

[Anonymous No.17446722]

>>17446690
>what are you diving into to?
This >>17445409
It's pretty good so far.

[Anonymous No.17446728]

>>17446714
I'm really disgusted that steampunk is basically just a fashion statement at this point. When people say steampunk all they mean is faggots wearing leather belts and goggles.

[Anonymous No.17446751]

>>17446722
link to where i can read it?

[Anonymous No.17446759]

>>17446751
It's on Amazon.

[Anonymous No.17447266]

>>17446759
can you fill us in on your thoughts when you're completely done?

[Anonymous No.17447379]

>>17447266
Sure.

[Anonymous No.17447480]

>>17445250
Utilitarian scum

[Anonymous No.17447507]

>>17447379
How long is it?

[Anonymous No.17447603]

>>17445104
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/
https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/
>https://lampbylit.com/magazine/critical-burgerpunk/

[Anonymous No.17447669]

>>17446714
It's just a suffix that became popular after Cyberpunk genre and it's used as a way to encompass speculative fiction where a minority chooses to rebel against the social norms stablished by society hence the term "punk".
Similar use of suffixes can be core, goth and gate (to address scandals ever since the Watergate scandal).

[Anonymous No.17448166]

>>17445250
>There is no reason to make it look nice because everyone is just passing through

Likewise, there was no reason to make Grand Central Station look nice because everyone was just passing through.

But they did, in NYC and in cities all over the country, because the citizenry had not yet been reduced to a soulless wal*mart/pornhub/facebook unterproletariat.

[Anonymous No.17448696]

>>17447603
this

[Anonymous No.17450146]

>>17447603
I really do love this article, as someone who has also tried multiple times to nail down burgerpunk, it's impossible.

[Anonymous No.17450217]

>>17450146
>as someone who has also tried multiple times to nail down burgerpunk, it's impossible.

I thought this anon >>17447669 absolutely nailed it.

Or perhaps burgerpunk is in the eye of the beholder.

[Anonymous No.17450249]

>>17450217
Sure, the direction of the word "burgerpunk" is the easy and nominal definition of what it's trying to convey. A corporate consumerist counter culture rebellion. But there's this kernel deep inside the idea of burgerpunk that all the writing on it has given it. Even the meta commentary of "what is burgerpunk" is, at this point, part of what burgerpunk is. There are more threads discussing what burgerpunk is than there are actual threads about the writing of burgerpunk stories. So then we start getting into the meta narrative of why that would keep happening and how it becomes a reflection of many ideas of modern thinkers when it comes to modernity, repetition, lost futures, hauntology, etc. But at that point it becomes a little too nailed down, too focused within a particular thought pattern, thus that idea is rejected and we are back to "what is burgerpunk" and we look at these photos and we know exactly what it is but we can't encapsulate it in a beautiful way like we want to, because the thing itself isn't beautiful. We can look to aesthetics but even then that's just another trap. Another rabbit hole. Burgerpunk isn't purely about the visuals, it's about the feelings and context that those visuals make bubble up within us.

It just goes in circles. And that's why that article is so spot on. I'm the one that wrote burgerpunk on royal road. I have 13 chapters and 13 different ways of trying to write burgerpunk and each one of them fail in different ways, unable to fully capture the idea that we have developed in these threads over the past two years.

[Anonymous No.17450277]

>>17448166
>because the citizenry had not yet been reduced to a soulless wal*mart/pornhub/facebook unterproletariat.
****the few people who commission massive infrastructure projects had different aesthetic values, not some vague nebulous "citizenry"****

[Anonymous No.17450938]

Burgerbump