Thread 24868182

Is it a coincidence that the rise of industrialism coaligned with the decline of literature?

>>24868182 (OP)
No there are plenty of freak books written after the steam engine. I would say the internet killed lit.

>>24868196
That's bullshit, a few good books came out of the information age. It's AI that killed it.

>>24868182 (OP)
You meant the rise of universal suffrage and women's rights.

laughing at the idea of an anon who thinks even 19th-century literature is decadent modernism. the only novels they read are like, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle.

>>24868326
Maybe change your file names from time to time if you don’t want to come off as a basement dwelling loser.

>>24868252
>That's bullshit
no, it's not

>>24868326
the standard marxist position is that capitalism unleashed huge new creative forces in the arts just as it did in industry

No they are two branches of the same tree. Another large branch is the decline of Christianity.

the novel is the result of industrial production lmao what do u think the printing press is lmao op best be trolling otherwise dumb af

>>24868182 (OP)
It's not a coincidence. Industrialists like Richard T. Crane mocked others for reading literature. It's why America has never had an intellectual tradition but a ton of for-profit colleges specializing in business and technology.

>>24868262
What are you talking about? There was an entire artistic and literary movement in France in the nineteenth century dedicated to the decadence of Parisian society.

>>24868182 (OP)
there literally is no good pre-industrial literature except the Iliad

>>24868534
i’m talking about decadence in the contemporary retvrnist sense common on this board. for guys like that the kind of decadents you’re talking about are considered to still be fancy high culture.

>>24868555
I still don't understand what you're saying. Chuds aren't reading novels like Bruges-la-Morte. Do you really mean to say that they're nostalgic for the aesthetics?

>>24868182 (OP)
>Is it a coincidence that the rise of industrialism coaligned with the decline of literature?
No sane person could possibly believe this, but I'll address the bait anyway. The 19th century was one of the greatest centuries for literature in human history. There was a notable decline in literary quality during the latter half of the 20th century and thereafter, but that was far after industrialization and it happened for entirely separate reasons.
>>24868360
>the standard marxist position is that capitalism unleashed huge new creative forces in the arts just as it did in industry
And it's undeniably true. The sheer quantity of masterpiece novels and poetry that were published in the 19th century is simply staggering. There has scarcely been another time in history where a cultural flourishing of that scale and degree took place.

>>24868182 (OP)
Yes

>>24868351
We're all basement dwellers here. You new or something?