I think several new genres of fiction are being born right now that will break the Industrial Age ones (SFF, mystery, romance, horror, thriller). One I think is alt-realism. Or adjacent-realism. Not counterfactuals, more like fictional conspiracy theories.
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Early examples of this stuff are a little too “real” as in, Qanon, catfishing, Anna Delvey type fraud etc. These things are in liminal kayfabe zone where they’re causally influencing things too tightly to count as fiction. A certain distance, safety barriers, will emerge.
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Though these things have the authorial qualities of fiction they are performed in too live/in situ a context to be formally innocent of malicious intent. You at least formal cues to counterprogram Poe’s Law. South Park has pioneered a lot of this in bits and pieces already btw.
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Linking Micah’s thoughts on agency fiction here. Another nascent genre in the air.https://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/936079422062497792?s=20 …
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“The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it” applies almost as strongly to culture as to technology. Inventing literary genres is probably the single biggest mode.
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