Which writer, in your opinion, has best captured the zeitgeist of the 21st century so far?

Which writer, in your opinion, has best captured the zeitgeist of the 21st century so far?

Houllebecq t.b.h

Tao LIn,

has anything changed since DeLillo wrote Mao II?

hasn't happened yet. everyone is still writing about the 20th century unconsciously. We need to wait until people born in 2000 onwards come of age and write.

this

Facebergs blog

Go back to twitter

Bruno Schulz

Good point. People didn't really start writing about the 20th century until the '20s.

Jean Raspail

Nick Land
Pope Francis
the collective mind of /r9k/

Veeky Forums itself

We have nothing to Veeky Forums but Veeky Forums itself.

I like this.

JG Ballard will have once society collapses in ~10 years

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What are ya'll waiting for?!

Was expecting Art of the Deal desu.

Actually, Eliot does capture a certain type of person's world view, so it's partly relevant even if meant as a shitpost.

The excessive obsession with "le zeitgeist" has no place in art. Art isn't pop culture, it's supposed to reach truths that are higher than the immediate present.

This thread is bad and you should feel bad

me desu

Anyone who agrees with this is a sour grapes incel faggot and needs to do something in real life

pretty gud

and thus he has done his job well...

There is not such a thing as Zeitgeist. That's just a fancy word first worldlers use to refer to their specific culture and implicitly universalize it as "the" (human, world) culture.

Tbh Nick Land is the only correct answer here.

Society of the Spectacle and the Perfect Crime are still the essential texts for understanding western culture.

nah. debord was caught up in the spectacle himself.