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    Eighteen Challenges in

    Contemporary Literature
    1. Literature is language-based and national:
    contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.
    2. Vernacular means of everyday communication,
    “cellphones, social networks, streaming video” are
    moving into areas where printed text cannot follow.
    3. Intellectual property systems failing.
    4. Means of book promotion, distribution and retail
    destabilized.
    5. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic
    industry with steeply rising costs.
    6. Core demographic for printed media is aging faster
    than the general population. Failure of print and
    newspapers is disenfranchising young apprentice
    writers.
    7. Media conglomerates have poor business model;
    economically rationalized “culture industry” is actively
    hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.
    8. Long tail Balkanizes audiences, disrupts means of canon-
    building and fragments literary reputation.
    9. Digital public – domain transforms traditional literary
    heritage into a huge, cost – free, portable, searchable
    database, radically transforming the reader’s relationship
    to belle – letters.
    10. Contemporary literature not confronting issues of general
    urgency; dominant best – sellers are in former niche genres
    such as fantasies, romances and teen books.
    11. Barriers to publication entry have crashed, enabling huge
    torrent of sub literary and/or nonliterary textual expression.
    12. Algorithms and social media replacing work of editors and
    publishing houses; network socially – generated texts
    replacing individually – authored texts.
    13. “Convergence culture” obliterating former distinctions
    between media; books becoming one minor aspect of huge
    tweet/blog/comics/games/ soundtrack/ television/ cinema/
    ancillary – merchandise pro – fan franchises.
    14. Unstable computer and cellphone interfaces becoming
    world’s primary means of cultural access. Compositor
    systems remake media in their own hybrid creole image.
    15. Scholars steeped within the disciplines becoming cross-
    linked jack – of – all – trades virtual intelligentsia.
    16. Academic education system suffering severe bubble –
    inflation.
    17. Polarizing civil cold war is harmful to intellectual honesty
    18. The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this
    dwindling feast.

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