Is literature already a dead artistic medium?

>>9091394
>go on /v/
>are videogames dead?
>go on /tv/
>is film dead?
>go on /pol/
>is the world doomed?
>go on /lit/
>is literature dead?

Why is 4chan so nihilistic?

>>9091394
>the common pleb doesn't engage with literature so it's DEAD FOREVER
Yeah because there was no great literature in any time when most people were illiterate amirite

>If you have a garden and a Steam library, you have everything you need.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

>>9091394
No. All art evolves.

>>9091861
Because they have shitty lives

The only problem I see for literature is that people don't have large attention spans anymore, so literature will likely have to adapt

>>9091925
Well, we already have Stephen King and erotic S&M novels. What's next?

>>9091394
You have it backwards. It's more that the idea of art is what's dead in every medium.

Around the 1950s, all forms of art started to devolve and become simplistic due to the needs to consumerist capitalism. Postmodernists will defend it as not worse, but "different". But the reason we have artistic standards is because art is a game. We know that these standards aren't objective, but art is meaningless and worthless without some set of values to judge it on. It's life-affirming to have standards of perfection and try to surpass them.

Popular music developed. We got repetitive rock music and then, hip hop, artistically shallow and simplistic and glorifying consumerism.

Literature started devolving with the Beats. Complexity and psychological depth ceased to matter more than mass trends and fashion. Things became more 2D, paralleling developments in music and reflecting the perspective of consumers. Now we have Stephen King and JK Rowling. Poetry has been given to women to whine about their vagina problems.

Painting made reacting against rules it's own rule. Go to any contemporary art museam: it's just derivative Pollocks and Duchamps by people who desperately want to assert their own individuality and absolve themselves of influence, and due to this, all art started looking the same. Tradition doesn't chain us, it help us understand art and it's context. Mimesis is important, and I want every artist to realize that the Egyptians and the Mesoamericans both built extremely similar pyramids despite being completely isolated from each other. Humans have certain physiological impulses that need satisfaction through art. Art is inseperable from us.

There's also this weird idea that these things will come naturally. Art is really a sort of fight against nature: none of it comes "natural" to society. It comes from isolated geniuses.

>>9092607
You have absolutely no idea what you're on about re: literary Postmodernism.

Literature ended when J R was published

>>9091394
idk anon did you read that thought provoking account of a rape survivor battling against islamophobia in the 1920s deep south a stream of consciousness unreliable narrator magical realism 900 page tour-de-force. It's the most important book you'll read this year.

>>9091394

>Is [ART FORM THAT STILL HAS DEDICATED ARTISTS AND CONSUMERS] dead?

Is OP fucking retarded?

>>9091925
That's what blogs are.