Is literature a defunct art form?

Is literature a defunct art form?

Is it so niche that only a few people will care about it in 20 years? Like Classical Music or Jazz? Or is it already at that point?

It is already undergoing a revival on Veeky Forums's literature board, of all places.

By who? Londonfrog?

people are conveying ideas more through videos or blogposts than literature presently. maybe someday in the future a new medium will evolve that can accomplish everything literature can

More people than ever read literature.

>making autists half-consciously waddle through meme-tier old books and pomo tomes revives literature

more people than ever read trash YA genre fiction, this isn't a good thing since it's reducing literature to nothing more than another form of entertainment like sports or hollywood movies

>Like Classical Music or Jazz
Negro what are you on about

thats like saying pizza changes what the digestive system is.

literature is not dead, what is defunct today is peoples minds. they dont need them anyway for what the modern world asks of them is just being working machines. anything they will create to survive in such circumstances will be correspondingly dead.

>Like Classical Music or Jazz?
Literally full retard.

>Is literature a defunct art form?

no

Most of those video essays are just pre-written scrips read out loud. They're not any less literary than audiobooks

>Like Classical Music or Jazz?

There is definitely potential.

the internet will destroy the codex and, thus, literature

Yeah, but it's not exactly a niche activity.

Classical music or jazz? Check out and see how many hits the best performers of each of these genres receive at your music service. Both forms are very much alive.

(you)

I guess I hallucinated the ~1600 members of the audience at the last classical concert I went to.

>1600 people
>out of 330 million in the US
>7 billion on Earth

I don't know about "defunct", but I do know certain types of academic literature has already become culturally irrelevant; It's hilarious how philosophers are absolutely fuming how ridiculously successful internet "philosophers" are becoming while they struggle to get a single citation.

>Is literature a defunct art form?
No, but it's been superseded by others as the highest of them.

I don't live in the US, the population of my city is around 800 000.
Speaking about concerts, I just remembered that Despacito-guy's show here was cancelled because too few tickets were sold.
I'm not saying that classical world churns out hits or something (it is particularly irrelevant to the few billion third-worlders who don't have a dedicated concert hall in their slums) but it has its reliable and sizeable audience. It isn't in the centre of popular culture but it certainly can't be called dead either.
Do you even listen to classical or just shitpost?

I live in a country that Americans constantly praise for its socialist initiatives but they are completely ignorant the disastrous effects government intervention has done to the theatres, tickets are so heavily subsided it's literally impossible to have any positive revenue while are the same time older concert goers and directors from foreign countries have refused to perform because people kept coming in ill-fitting casual wear.

I think, for better or worse, writers are gonna be forced into the John Green mold where they're known for their novels but are required to keep an online or e-celeb presence.

Then I guess I live in a cultural mecca, since the government supports culture financially, tickets are cheap, people can dress relatively causally and nobody complains. A fair number of theaters is also actually profitable.
Probably not, though (that is, I don't live in a cultural mecca).
But I really have to wonder, what sort of an audience stops going to concerts because they don't like the clothes of the rest?

>>making autists half-consciously waddle through meme-tier old books and pomo tomes

>Is literature a defunct art form?
Pretty much.

I live in a small town, and the only people who seem to read are older retired types.

At the library, all the kids are playing vidya on the computers. The librarians fall all over me because I order and check out books.

I'm terrified that when the oldsters die off, they're going to close my branch, and I'll have to drive 20-30 miles to the nearest library.