Besides the works of Bret Easton Ellis and Tao Lin, could /lit/ offer me some works that deal with millennials?
I ask this as a millennial who can see the vapidity and high-order narcissism of his peers, but can also see in them positive traits such as diligence and idealism (despite the onslaught of ironic content the internet has churned out). Thus, I would like some sort of assurance (or counter-argument) that all generations have been equally "me, me, me." If nothing in points such a direction, then why is that?
>>8215434
try Marxism, specifically Jameson
>>8215434
>works that deal with millennials
Nu School Know-Brow YA
>>8215290
>a literature of New Media
>Avant Garde way beyond post modern
.. mattering and storytelling are in an intra-active relationship...
...Storytelling is not just a sensemaking or linguistic account, it is also about mattering...
... Storytelling is the teleological movement that arises from timespacemattering that is not strictly reducible to sensemaking consciousness...
>>8215434
>I ask this as a millennial
...look deeper....
..There are some recent researches which put the emphasis on the youth, the future of the society who is at the forefront of new media environment...
...According to the media ecology theory, analyzing today's generational identity through the lens of media technologies themselves can be more productive than focusing on media content....