will literature ever be relevant again? what would it take? or

>>8510173
When was literature ever 'relevant'?

>what would it take?
Readers.

Can't have literature "being relevant again" where no one reads.

>>8510177
Suppose it depends on your definition of literature but sailors on the way into New York from London used to rush to the front of the ship to shout what happened in the latest Dickens chapters to the dockmen

What does relevant mean really? Popular?

If so, I hope it gets more underground, because nothing good ever comes when art forms become too mainstream and popular.

>>8510192
Oh so it was popular for a minute in the 19th century.

So was Harry Potter

>>8510192
At this very moment there are more travelers on the NYC subway reading something or another on their phones who will shout at anyone given the opportunity to do so than there were "sailors" shouting at "dockmen" about "Dickens"

>>8510173
>what would it take

It would have to provide some practical real-world value like STEM or coding. Why else should anyone care about a bunch of privileged white college students jerking each other off?

>>8510219
Yeah white collar metropolitan intelligentsia, lets see how the average prole is spending his hours off work

>>8510223
>Why else should anyone care about a bunch of privileged white college students jerking each other off?

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