"Flat Literature" in the Network Society(<Special Issue>Information as Literature/Literature as Information)

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  • フラット化する文学(<特集>文学としての情報/情報としての文学)
  • フラット化する文学
  • フラットカ スル ブンガク

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The network society enables people and things to have encounters that were unthinkable and impossible before. Reduced to a "flat" piece of information, however, everything is now in danger of losing its own value and quality. Literature is also rapidly becoming "flat." The tendency can be found in the decline of serious literature and the rise of trash one such as mystery novels and animations. But "flat literature" is useful not for literary study but for cultural research because its existence itself proves the process of violent assimilation and reification in the excessively information-oriented society.

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