/lit/ - Literature

>>23239944
>implying novels are still relevant

>>19115019
Nice DFW

cringe.

stop being ironic, anons.

This is the kind of detachement produced and the kind of bigger argument in which Wallace's statement about the Academy Awards must be placed in. Phrases like "an industry congratulating itself" or "We all stand up for these people as if they were gods" are spot on - the one hand. It's true enough, of course, but I often feel this bluntness lacks the kind of reflexivity which Wallace actually put into his argument because often in these kind of phrases I sense the exact same superiority which seems to say something along the lines of "millions of people blindly follow the farce of the Oscars but I know the truth" while in truth, I think, a great majority of people has already looked through the looking glass and indeed acknowledged its fakeness. I am even fairly sure that the vast majority of Hollywoodians knows that all this is just a huge farce - I mean, of course they know! They watch the same media programmes as us, they read the same comments, as we do - of course they know all this is just a huge show - but it keeps them relevant because we engage. But why do we still engage?
For two reasons, I suggest: Firstly, because we watch the Oscars (and by "watching" I mean us engaging in all Oscar-related media like this video and my comment itself) with a loose kind of detachement, a feeling of slight superiority that we indeed saw through all that while that very detached attitude is what keeps the oscars alive. Secondly, I think that all this can be seen as a byproduct of TV's self-referentiality and self-irony as outlined above. The byproduct is that TV itself has become its own microcosm. It has its own unique characters, its own history and its own special place in our culture. And, as Wallace often mentioned, it is just so damn easy to engage with it (unlike books or music pieces which take time and an active willingness to pay attention to). It's easy to sit in front of a TV or Computer and let yourself be dragged into its microcosm (and btw, while Wallace always referred to TV I obviously mean "the internet" where phenomena such as "memes" or "it went viral" do indeed the same job of self-referentiality for making the whole irreducible pluralism of the internet to appear hermetically closed, almost looped).

>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins
Wtf Nabokov

>>15125767
Not OP, but where should one start with DFW?

>So let me get this straight:
What Deluze and Guattari and then Nick land discuss is Epistemology?

and not just schizo political rambling?

>>14576181
>The Big Sleep

>>13112901

>>12977059

who are the greatest female authors of all time /lit/?

>>12845949
>David Foster Wallace isn't worth mentioning in the upper echelons of writers.
Faggot.

>>11846464
the man was a narcissistic and chronically anxious ex-alcoholic, in other words the exact type of person to commit suicide. its fun to be a conspiratard but fuck this bait

was it autism

>>11361178
>>11361184
>he has a reddit account

>>11111673
Are you okay?

>>10958662
stop lying, loser
i caught you. fess up.

>>10801207
>really like the aesthetic

>"hair, that felt like caramel?"
fucking kek

>hair, that
felt like caramel?
fucking kek

>>10778320
>wigan pier
>several miles from the sea

>All these cucks going on about "muh living" "muh retirement" " "muh career"
>just bitter resentment over failure and lack of opportunity all over the place
>Hurrr everyone has to be like me
>everyone has to fall in line

Jesus Christ... you people are actually infected with down syndrome.
Most, if not all, great writers wrote during extended periods of being away from work or school. No one has the time to pursue a writing passion and work at the same time. Work and creativity are not conducive with each other. Kafka slagged off at his clerk job so much. He'd come in late, he'd leave early. He mostly hated going.
Joyce couch surfed, lived in poverty most of his life.
Tolstoy was a NEET.
Pynchon had very little money while he was writing V and GR, constantly going back and forth between Mexico and California.
DFW lived in a halfway house.

Think real hard as to why Artist Grants and patronage are a thing, you idiots.

>>10728825
What are you even talking about now?

Can you stop shitposting?

>>10719585
You don't know how to spell the word semicolon (please insert a comma here to fix this awful run-on) (n)or use a semicolon correctly

literal subhuman scum