The future of fiction is decentralized.

The year is [CURRENT YEAR].

Literary fiction has been DISMEMBERED, its cracked and severed limbs crumpled into the narrative space of the PURITY COFFIN.

Drained of life, the future of the form is barren, desolate…

(or is it?)

MEANWHILE, an international network of pseudonymous artists and cryptocurrency engineers are feverishly working on a singular mission: to EMANCIPATE the production of contemporary fiction from centralized systems of homogenization and control.

Using the latest advancements in computer TECHNOLOGY, pseudanons are SELF-PUBLISHING PDF’s with sheer abandon, surfing the FRONTIER of possibility with ripples of joy bursting forth from their hearts.

Watch out, friends!

These waters are TREACHEROUS!

What shall be the fate of our heroic pseudanons?

Will their words be cast into the SERRATIONS of the spatially-distributed MOB?

Or will their works enter the ETERNAL PANTHEON of literary greatness?

Top Posts:

Critiques of contemporary literary culture:

• Literary culture is purity culture: On the Verso books piece and the state of literary fiction

• Revisiting the Perez/Hobart controversy, Part 1: Psychodemographic class capture and elite cultural institutions

• Revisiting the Perez/Hobart controversy, Part 2: white women and racial gatekeeping in literary fiction

• Asian-American literature is boring because liberalism is the mother-of-all identity shredders and our literary elites are approval-seeking strivers

• The decline of literary fiction and the principal-agent problem in modern publishing

Decentralized fiction:

• Online pseudonymity and the post-facial author: the alt-lit case for peeling off your face

• Decentralized fiction and the sovereign technology stack

• How to spectacularly fail at marketing your book on 4chan's /lit/erature board

Androgenic literature as a novel micro-genre:

• wake up babe, new fiction category (ANDROGENIC LITERATURE) just dropped

• ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 1: Nutcrankr by Dan Baltic

• ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 2: Dragon Day by Matthew Pegas

• ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 3: Multiracial masculinity in Mixtape Hyperborea by Adem Luz Rienspects

Cope re: literary fiction & AI:

• Butterflies for the machine god: Fiction Maximalism in the twilight of the species

• Of drone swarms and phalanxes: wordcel extinction, AI, and the end of art