Why isn't there encompassing work about the internet and it's culture, similar to Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, The Recognitions and Mason & Dixon for American?
>>24883373>Gravity's Rainbow>set in Britain>Mason & Dixon>two EnglishmenAmerican?
>>24883387It takes placer in America
>>24883373The internet moves too fast and is so informal that by the time you publish something what you are writing about is already out of style, but also comes off as inauthentic.
>>24883373Gravity's Rainbow *is* about the internet and its culture
>>24883419Is it?
>>24883373there is, it's called homestuck
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>>24883373You can just use the internet. Novel not needed.
>>24883373I'm writing it, unironically
>>24883542You could also just experience life and not read philosophy but we do because we want to better understand the undercurrent of reality that can't be perceived with eyes alone.
>>24883559I'm constitutionalizing it and was looking for good examples lol.
>>24883561>You could also just experience lifeExcept you really can't. certainly not all of it. In fact, no where near any of it. Not so with the internet.I realistically can't go out and hunt humans for sport. I can certainly read The Most Dangerous Game. If i wanna experience the online world of a bunch of anorexic teenage cutters, I really can just go hop in the discord and lurk firsthand.I'm not saying there's no purpose to the novel, there's no purpose to any second-hand content about the internet because there's no barrier for first-hand experience.
>>24883580The same is true foe the internet it is too large too experience all of it. The barrier might be lower but that only matters if you even know what to look for.
>>24883373Nothing really covers the last 25 years. More books /happen/ during the formation of the internet and are mentioned obliquely but aren’t about it or what happens on it. In fact there are no good books at all happening entirely online which is increasingly where life is, and where some pioneers already spent their entire lives. Not sure what it would look like since you’re inevitably drawn into a panoply of shifting customs and technologies. How can you portray early Usenet, to email culture, chats from IRC and ICQ to Facebook culture without just aping the stylistic look or tone? Something important happens in each era of the internet for everyone on it. The cast of characters change. In some ways you could split it into the prewar, wwi, interwar and wwii literature paradigm, in that each specific era of a rather narrow couple of decades has a completely different set of circumstances. There are landmark novels for each period, from inside the literal trenches and outside. The internet changed life much more drastically but it still seems too trivial to write about, let alone break down into the halcyon sleepwalking days of the 1990s and so on.
>>24883431A bunch of clueless retards running around in a giant trash heap slowly dying while shadowy unreachable forces direct their interests. Sounds like the internet to me.
It already exists
>>24883373What is there that is interesting to say about the Internet that would warrant a novel like that?
>>24883818A short story anthology. And My First Book is better if we’re doing anthologies
>>24883373The internet isn't interesting and much of what happens on it is very timely and ages like bananas. Do you think those books that translated Shakespeare to emoji texts will be remembered for being good?
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>>24883701blockhead
>>24884076Not a novel, not great.
>>24883373Amygdalatropolis is the closest thing I can think of
>>24883373It's too much of a chaos to portray through the order of semantics. It would be like trying to portray a football match in prose including mechanistically describing the movements of each player in relation to each other bodily joint by bodily joint, angle and inclination etc.; it becomes a false economy except to portray the effects on the human condition allegorically as Crash did with postmodernism.
Trying to convey new technology using old technology. Do you litards even listen to yourselves? Novel Writing is an old outdated medium. The internet is it's own medium, it doesn't need to be conveyed via novels.
I think you could do a novel based on kiwifarms by making up your own lolcow up, and having the harassment and weening escalate. The only reason that works is because the weenery crosses over into real life actions.
>>24884076TAO LIN
>>24883793There's too much to include in one novel. It would get so unbelievably bogged down in specifics that you'd have to commit to writing something like The Pale King. Lots of the indie/alt books right now, as well as the bigger books mentioned elsewhere in this thread, are currently trying to tackle the internet in their own ways. One or two users on here have written their own internet novels, and X is filled with people who've just had theirs published, or who have internet-type novels coming out next year. I personally don't think there's much room for more. It's already getting a bit tedious. But a cool infographic or whatever featuring some of the best would be neat.
