Is literature obsolete in the internet age?

>>7987130
The internet can be unreliable.

No you pussy. Hypertext literature is the future.

>>7987130
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/07/tom-mccarthy-death-writing-james-joyce-working-google

absolutely not

>>7987130
>obsolete
What? What do you mean?

>Is music obsolete in the video game age?

That's you, that's how stupid you sound.

Yes. All of the important sentiments that books have ever offered have been redistributed on the internet in more condensed and streamlined forms.

The internet has also largely turned intellectual discourse into a competition of sorts, rather than the academic chore that it used to be.

>>7987192
How can one be such an insufferable smartass and a dense piece of shit at the same time?

>>7987208
>What do you mean?

>>7987130

No I don't think so. If anything, the internet has already helped to and will continue to invigorate literature and literary culture by allowing so much information about literature to be so easily available anywhere.

It also helps people all around the world hear faster about new literature that is good and lets them find out way more about it. If it weren't for the internet then Knausgaurd and Bolano would not have received their recognition and critical acclaim as fast as they did.

Implying every piece of literature doesn't have a code in it that will be accessible only once we reach cyberpunk

The internet is no more important to literature than a piece of dirt, so it does affect it some larger kind of way only.

>Is literature obsolete in the internet age?

What did he mean by this?

Yep.

yup

>>7987208
shut up tard

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Its function hasn't changed, and by that i mean literature as the vehicle towards literacy, which separates people into literate and illiterate, elite and cattle/playthings

"knowing how to code is the new literacy" is idiotic, the term code monkey tells you all you need to know about the place and stature of such 'literati'

No, the method changes, not the perception. That and the fact that reading it in meatspace makes it stick in your mind more thoroughly.

>>7992997
Wew, someone's triggered.

Maybe if you actually contributed instead of feigning intelligence and being pedantic about the question you wouldn't get hollered at.