Make predictions about the future of literature

You lied about the sex :3

You’re not allowed to have it.

And btw that prediction is probably extremely wrong. Technology hits a wall with the brain. You can’t materialize the brain.

Holograms instead of paper cutouts?
Still I don't see this as a trend to replace literature

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Stop breaking time please :3

Its going to be heavily political to the point that it wont matter what you write as long as author is the flawor of the month.

Just further decline of only social narratives and barely any just genuinely good stories

reminder that there isn't any literature written in the 21st century. it's already a dead medium that's been replaced with podcasts.

god I wish that were me
god I wish that were me

Nobody is gonna read a full book

This? Never heard of it

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like for example? don't make me pull it out of your anonymous nose

What’s it say, user?

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a great work of literature will come out in
>the twenties

>2666
>Min kamp
>Lincoln in the Bardo
>Book of Numbers
>Atonement
>Against the Day
>The Pale King

Why bother posting some stupid teen magazine photo?

Cringey photo.

These pics are not good.

Is this Elsa Jean?

You're greatly hampering her intellectual development. Way to go.

Increasingly ironic. We're already past the ironic event horizon so at this point we're just going to pick up speed as the spaghettification of modern literature accelerates, leaving nothing but thin strands of pop culture references and self-aware '''humor'''.

she looks like she fucks black guys

Paper will disappear. Books will only exist in a digital space. In turn, a multimedia movement will happen in literature.

Hmm, well, you know, no great writes have emerged for like what 20+ years

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You’re using the word "cringe" are you 15 years old user?

My posts were deleted?

Butterfly I made some posts at the same time as you did. God as my witness please reply: did you see them :3

Good job, you imbecile. She'll fit right in with the rest of the smartphone generation.

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How would you know? Bloom himself says judging what contemporary works will last is a fools game

True.

The decline of heroic fiction - romanticism was a wrong turn away from classical art, and then modernism helped finish it off. Postmodernism is the carcass. The decline is mapped out in fiction, poetry, and the theater. All of these literary forms tanked in the 20th century. Concerning literature, novels in the 20th century began to have antiheroes instead of heroes. A hero is instructive. Antiheroes are the antithesis of what literature is supposed to do. If was that you could read a good novel and expect the experience to make you a better person. By the 1960s, that wasn't the case. Today it's even more empty than American Psycho. It's a really good book and it's a shame it's so forgotten.

They're out there but they're kept down by the power elite status quo that Bloom himself is very much a part of. It's all part of the plan.

What elaborate plan do you speak of Monsieur?

You have a point monsieur, how do I know?, I don’t Monsieur

Obliterate Christian civilization and European man

I just wanted you to say it haha

And also the last good writer to die was David Foster Wallace, DoNt @ mE

Fuck off buttershit

There hasn’t been a good writer since David Foster Wallace, based

I want to eat her snatch box so bad, when I’m done with her, she’ll never browse Yea Forums ever again and commit to a life without technology

Who cares about the future of literature? There is a great past behind with thousands of good books.
Read Nostromo.

Dave Eggers checking in

I’m sorry Butterfly ;_; I started all of this... but it’s because I loved you remember that :3

Poems about space phenomena

I rest my case

Why?

Sounds about right. Case in point None of that appeals to me. And I like Saunders.

I’d kill you before you could get that far

Such a powerful woman :3

Are you protecting your pussy for me or not? Please don’t lie

>woman
costanza.jpg

Please note: her absence of a reply is unbelievably remarkable considering there is a thread up. I know I’m digging deep on this one, it might even hurt Butterfly, but I know you like me :3

What’s your favourite George Saunders book

Very Persistent Gapper of Fripp

I’m starting with In Persausion Natio,n, what am I in for?

Surrealism, often lightly humorous, seems to be his thing

And your rating?, out of 5

because they look like they fuck black guys

Meh. Like beauty; on or off. A solid on

You watch too much Blacked.

im reading as i write it amazing

Going to look into this

It's not going to be good -
unless someone does something

Sincerity back to irony and on and on.

Libraries will start selling ipads and coffee due to new regulations on paper production. Everybody is wearing gas masks, leather and fake limbs. The streets are lit by lamp posts and bike headlights 24hs. Also everybody is male

>In an attempt to free ourselves of the screen, at least in part, our computers/smart-phones will be more voice operated. You speak to it and it speaks to you.

Absolutely not the case. As the synergy between man and tech grows, we will not rely on voice commands both due to the time taken to speak, its lack of privacy and the time taken for the software to reply. A connection directly to the synapses or inner voice of the brain would be more of a step in the right direction.

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Yep. Always funny to me that no one ever reflects on the fact that contemporary literature is totally dominated by largely talentless Jews. Where did all the European literary talent go? Europeans went from being the greatest writers by far to nearly irrelevant in their own countries just like that? Where are the Shakespeares, Austens, Dickenses, Tolstoys, Joyces, so on? They’ve literally been shut out by Jewish nepotism. The more you think on this the angrier you get, if you love literature. Think of all the great classics we’re missing out on, rejected in favor of Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathon Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, etc.

It was funny to me when Philip Roth died there was an article I think by Slate listing the contemporary writers mourning him on twitter. It was a long ass list. Every single one of them was Jewish. What sort of psyop shit is that lmao

They're out there and driven underground. Self published. Unpublished manuscripts. Depression treatments. Wondering why their work isn't getting an audience. It sucks, how do we break through?

>Privacy
Hu? If you want that you write it
>Time it takes
No one need rush so much. Comfort would come first. The software for AI will be humanized more than the human softwared.

"Synergy" later though. Space pioneers will want it, but plenty will want to stay more human and mortal

>The Future of Literature" by Arther S. Trace

i can´t find it

>>"The Future of Literature" by Arther S. Trace
amazon.com/future-literature-Arther-S-Trace/dp/B0006WC46U

kirkcenter.org/best/a-dark-prospect/

>If was that you could read a good novel and expect the experience to make you a better person
sure thing lel

zoomer dork go find a catechism

>something happens
>many people are opposed to it, on a very emotional level
>writer writes book about event where the conclusion is already in the title: the Thing was bad.
>massive marketing campaign
>lots of people buy it
>author and publisher cash out
>doesn't matter if it is written well, people bought it because they were told to.

This is basically all political books since the 2016 election (right and left) but it is also touching other genres like that immensely bad (and successful) poetry book which was basically trendy phrases and reddit-spacing with some Instagram-friendly art next to it written by a PoC female.

This will probably continue because emotion and marketing are the only things left in our economy.

>reddit-spacing

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you know

what I

mean though

The future is short stories and essays about things that can be linked to current events. Or at least pretending to be related to get the marketing started.

The future of literature is just running ancestor simulations in which famous authors wrote different things to see how it would have effected history.

If you want to publish make sure you have a few completed stories ready to go so when something big happens you can, within like a few days of fine-tuning, send it to the publisher where it will seem relevant and marketable and get it published asap to make sure your book can ride the wave set in motion by the big event.

The English language will be banned because of its association with colonial oppression.
I wish I was joking.

>Gaiman
I did not know he was Jewish. I wouldn't say he is untalented though.

In the UK the unwritten rule is that you had to attend Oxford. US is more Jew-dominated.

Most people already admit that most of the shit that they read is bad in terms of quality. They see anything old and they get intimidated because of how challenging it is compared to YA lit. The last ten years have seen increasingly bland books for mass consumption. There's a bubble in the intellectual and literary world right now. It's going to pop.

Because of this, I foresee a counterculture where people rebel against the mediocre trash and seek out edifying, challenging, and beautiful works. People are going to look at the 2010's and be ashamed at mass culture. They're going to be ashamed of their attempts to exercise virtue vicariously through different causes. There's already an incredibly jaded youth base that is sick of how the media and the political systems keep jerking them around, and while there will always be a subset of youth who will stay liberal forever, most of the smart kids are shifting away from all that and towards the fact that the behemoths of media and entertainment don't give a flying fuck about them. Their reaction will be a new wave of romanticism, where things like emotion, virtue, and personal development will be the focus of all this; as in people will actually seek to live and to grow as people, and their art will reflect that. Not all of them, of course, but enough, to where it'll be an art movement where more moderate/conservative and grounded individuals contribute to beauty instead of just academics and jobless libs. Christian values will make somewhat of a comeback, but the churches won't. I see a couple decades where the intelligent and hard working people won't really seek high paying jobs, but freedom and expression instead, and so there will be a slight political shift in literature as well. It's just the pendulum of culture and counterculture.

There's going to be some big wars, or some more disasters. People are going to die, and be displaced. Just like the first and second world wars helped to shape an entire generation of writers, similar things will happen to force the next generation to build some iota of character, and give them some experience of suffering, apart from the sad and traumatizing content on television. And this will make art beautiful again. Real personal experience. Real people. Real.

So in lamens terms time will repeat itself as usual

I miss the enlightened mass culture of the 00s.

He's also openly anti-white. He's part of the plan. Working to emasculate white males, destroy Christian patriarchy, eliminate the name of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, he's a complete loser. All his fame and money are for nought. He's on the losing side and needs to repent.

In favour of... Hindi? Spic hybrid language? Ebonics? Chinese? Esperanto?

Great post. I'm part of this counterculture. I wish we had a board just for THIS.

Thumbs up

I will never be published, let alone influential.

milk & honey
j/k

oof, tho
fml

>people bought it because they were told to & because it helped them virtue-sginal to themselves and their peers and family

fixed it for you

Same, I spent the better part of this decade trying to break into music and art. I would obsess over performances and recordings. Now, I barely even care to show my friends. I just want to create and to think and not worry how it sells or if people like it.

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Retards using female pronouns everywhere to be "inclusive", whole works being retconned for the sake of social justice, etc...

oh wait you said future?

What got you away? Was it the difficulty in trying to break through while producing work that fought against the prevailing anti-culture? Or just a change in thought?
I made a name for myself as a journalist and kept getting minor successes as a writer and artist, but kept hitting the wall. I also realized that the work I have to do, and that I'm doing, is not going to be what the New Yorker or Tin House or whatever is looking for. I have a hard drive full of books that no one knows about. I don't care about being liked anymore, I just want to create the thing I need to. Ironically I'm turning towards music - I've wondered if breaking into music will be easier than books.

Do I need to be well versed in the Literary Canon to appreciate this or can any old chap get into it?

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Intellectuals with the literary skills to create a decent work will create esoteric tripe meant only for a handful of their peers
The masses, being historically, culturally, and intellectually enfeebled will never produce anything great again. Same with "modern nobility".
Maybe some Eastern European or East Asian will create something worthwhile. Presumably, it would be in their own language though. On the bright side, there are enough classics to last a lifetime and with the internet, you can get a hold of most of them for free.

>The English language will be banned
No, but mark my words, it will be renamed International Standard or some bullshit like that in the next twenty years

All literature will be downloaded into our brains. AI will write new stuff.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is going to be a major influence on a lot of authors

Do you really believe so? Do you think that there will be a branch of writers called "Evangelion-y" by the critics?

because I can already feel that Eva-esque imagery is sneaking into my writing whenever I'm drifting away from realism

Everyone who understands Jewish power structures reflects on it.
Overwhelming majority of people are oblivious to Jewish power structures for good reason.

Look at how many posts this board gets on 'What is the Evangelion of literature

>because it helped them virtue-sginal to themselves and their peers and family

Yes, but this is also a two way street: because of marketing people think buying it will allow them to virtue-signal. It's an endless cycle much like a virus where eventually the hosts (consumers) will take over the marketing by virtue-signalling, which is basically marketing itself.

People used to market the way a product was better than the competition, now they market the consumer as better than the non-consumer. It's very smart from a marketing-standpoint but also very destructive because it is basically igniting class-warfare.
>I can afford X so I am Good

The very best example of this is the musical Hamilton.

This is what I am hoping for as well. If you look in the right spaces, you will see the seeds of this future in place.

To add to this, I think we will see a rebellion against social media in the future generations.

One day someone will make a book about an incestuous relationship and incest will be the new freedom movement

>future
cringe

confirmed: butters is a literal retard

The self-publish shit-tier market will be absolutely flooded with neural-net generated prose that’s lightly edited for comprehensibility; zero effort will be made for zero effort subgenres like smut.

As ML gets a better grasp of dramatic structure, beyond just word embeddings, automation will replace ghostwriting; Tom Clancy will be the name of the anonymous neural nets trained on Reddit data that pump out content for boomers.

The crushing reality is this won’t happen at all. This is nostalgia, plain and simple. We need to learn to live with what we have at current with zero expectation of anything better. History is over. The simulacra won.

This is a board full of weebs dumbass, not indicative of greater cultural influences.

adding onto that:
its well known that each successive generation of social media users move away from the platform of the former gen:
(in aggregate, compared to other user demographics) kids used to be on facebook; then they moved to snapchat; now theyre on tik tok.
at some point things can only get so absurd, and there’s going to be a bottoming out, when the content so ephemeral that people reject tying their identity to it. kids will look for more wholesome social engagements

example: more interest in DnD because of stranger things; catan also being a college meme

ye fuck tin house they didnt like my shit

think ill just have to start a journal

This is definitely true

Go back to your containment board.

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This. Itll always exist as painting and sculpting have, but like the latter two literature will become tertiary to electronic media. Video and its future forms has and will continue to replace literature.

3 dimensional books

Nice excuse you bored neet

Interesting, but does he explain the decline of literature dealing with abstract qualities like love or representing and celebrating nature?

This can be said for every piece of modern media. I'm no fan of Star Wars, but I read The Hero with a Thousand Faces randomly before watching The Last Jedi, and it generally annoyed me due its snarky and horrible approach to a heroic figure.

Yes. Romanticism was the love of nature and that led to the love of man. Everything wrong was falling away from God, and from love of God. It's at the point now (when he wrote in the early 70s) that there are no truths, no love, nothing. Anything goes. And, in terms of art, it did. To the detriment of art.

I think all modern media is affected, yes.

If you are going to write music, try composing. It's way more comfy. No struggle with bandmate's schedules and what not. Also, the classical form is practically dead and it desperately needs revival.

My last significant who offed themselves looks exactly like the girl in the photo. I have the first letter of her first name tattooed under my arm. I haven't been with anyone since. I miss her.

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Sad story. How/why did she do it

same

>we
Where can I buy your book?

She was in an awful car wreck and she was driving. Killed her younger brother in the process, It legitimately wasn't her fault (other driver). But her family blamed her for it. Not to mention she struggled with mental health issues even before that. Her brother being killed was the straw that broke the proverbial camels back. She Killed herself by a gunshot to the head. I remember her friend (who found her) calling me after she called 911. I remember becoming tensed up, almost paralyzed from what I had just heard. Then the ringing in my ears started, that may have been the loudest noise I have ever heard. I didn't move for about 2-3 minutes but It felt like years had gone best with me sitting at the foot of my bed hearing nothing but ringing.

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It seems like video games are the least affected despite video game heroes being born in this antihero era. Any ideas on this? Mario is a classic hero. Link is a classic hero; a lot of Nintendo heroes come to mind.

Vidya is still produced by niche enough people to be partially sheltered from the mass zeitgeist. This might change as the people in charge are still weirdos in their 40s-50s (the Gen X nerds) that will be replaced by the resetera crowd in the next decade if things go wrong.
Another point is that due to its nature, vidya is less influenced by its official critics that no one takes seriously and distribution platforms are easily accessible, so the barrier of entry is smaller than in literature or movies or art galleries.
Last but not least, the medium is still dominated by male goyim, let's not pretend it doesn't have an impact.

Post pic of her

That bitch don't read

why would pretty people read?

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It’s been like two days, and now I’m wondering what her panties smell like

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>Cloud
>Nathan Drake
>Joel and Ellie

They are all probably infinitely more interesting than your average pretty person.

sorry to hear this

wasnt Shakespeare part of the masses? so there's still some hope

why is noone (You)ing me on this

The attention you seek you shall never receive you vile vile vile man,

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A killer app will be released that will allow you to chat with other people who are currently reading live, and will also support forums so you're not stuck reading with one other person.
The app will also have an Alexa/Siri/Google Assistant-like AI voice that will read any text you upload to the app to you.

Hmm, looks like speech and violence really are different things.

Just in that picture each one is telling a story. Otoh, imagine the smell.

Instabookclub, insert footage of peedeepie reading you bedtime stories.

>Instabookclub
That's not a killer app, that's a group of people on one social media platform gathering to talk about their hobby.

I was naming your app, not referring to some other thing that already (apparently?) exists. Also making fun of it, since I doubt books are the future.

I see, my bad. I was surprised it was an actual thing, too.
I think literature has staying potential as a form of entertainment/study for times you can either only listen or only read, such as while commuting or working, in comparison to music and film which requires the necessity of sound, and in film's case both sound and a visual. Literature only needs one or the other and thus has more opportunity for use. Kindle and Google Play Books (especially Google, since it has a text-to-speech feature baked into the app) are good starting points. I like Kindle's Frequently Highlighted feature and wish it had the ability to publicly share and view notes as well.

I’m still unsure of its value. But just go make it yourself, if you believe in it. You could learn to make an app from “swift playgrounds” right now. Get rich and spend all day shitposting on Yea Forums.

So what? It's still English.

Is the proportion of English-speaking peoples on the planet even increasing anymore? Given the low birthrates of European and Anglosphere countries where its most commonly spoken I'm not convinced it's gaining market share, even with India doing all the work; it's certainly not going to reach some preferred status over Spanish and Mandarin.

>It legitimately wasn't her fault
yes it was

Mostly I got sick of the SJW's and I wanted to stop drinking and taking hard drugs. I realized I'd rather have a family then trying to make it in a music genre that is going the way of jazz. I still plan to write and record, but mostly because I have to, not to get signed or go on tour, I just have the need to create. If you feel drawn to music I say do it. It may not get massively recognized, but it very likely could change a dozen people's lives. I know my shitty hardcore band did at least.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Books will become entirely digital, there will be government buybacks of books to trade in for e-readers, leading to the degeneration of written text. Once most physical writings and physical writing material is gone, and the majority of literature that is written is available on government subsidized e-readers, there will slowly be changes to grammar and text done in the background to groom people into their books changing. They will all be connected to the internet constantly, and the words will slowly change revision after revision until everything is pure propaganda and no original thought is left and the common man will have no way of knowing this.

whats her insta

The books I release will be included into the literary cannon. I will force the literary world and society as a whole to stare at itself and come to terms with the decomposing standards of art, literature, philosophy; to condemn the consumer and the producer for the decline of serious art. I'd be content with causing a couple suicides within the writing world (plebeian novels,series. poetry, journalism etc). Don't think I can do it? Don't care.

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There was a paranoia in the last decade about certain important writers being removed from reading lists in schools for being inapropriate for our political age. While this has worked in simpler schools, it has been (widely) largely rejected and ridiculed. I think the next move is to introduce "No Fear Shakespeare" style translations and 'reimaginings' that distort the meanings of the original texts to fit modern politics.

We need to instill fear. I like that. I like being thought of as a 'dangerous' writer. Only problem is, literary journals won't publish me so now what

this.
just think about Notre-dame, in this age is no longer possible to create that of architecture, not because we can't but we don't want anymore, taste and art have been degraded to just be another product and commodification. the same thing is happening to literature, anyone can write books because there isn't a standard to which we can classify what is good and what isn't a good piece of literature, mass people destroyed culture.

Civilizations wear out. Maybe ours has. Maybe it can be saved, maybe it can't. Maybe a new civilization is waiting in the wings. In any event, I'm really depressed abou the state of things.

how is that any different from realist novels such as tolstoy?

great writers come after the generation dies not during

schools will teach you to be more opinionated. the curriculum will stop having you read books that stand the test of time, and will stop allowing you to come together to create worthwhile anecdotes of what you read. it will become a version of what it is now, you will be encouraged to create the opinions of what you were born with and has no substance, what you "feel" is right and you blurt out during a second interval in a social interaction, some thought you hadn't thought about before the conversation.

noone will know the true nature of human emotion or humanity itself, anything that comes genuine from yourself or was once popular in a romantic culture will seem weird or out of place. anything that can't be described and in all seriousness something that is not a displayable emotion like an "emoji" will label you as creepy. if your whole self isn't displayed on a plate or a digital screen you seem mysterious. in short you actually will start to look like a robot and is way to common on young people, i wish i can go more into words on that

based

Except for Book of Numbers

Any ol chap