The contemporary production and reception of literature is highly institutionalized and regularized - the process from contracting to publishing is dominated by an elitist practice, but ostensibly inevitable to build an audience and establish a literary voice. The discourse around and evaluation of literature seems to be dominated by a corporate elite -
a monopolized and capitalized criticism, conducted by a small number of people, in an even smaller number of feuilletons, dictates the market and conception of contemporary writing.
Through the advent of the internet, this standardized machine suffered first cracks. Further fragmentation and democratization of poetry will allow further liberation from cultural taboos and a less restrictive media hierarchy. Any rupture with the monopolizing bubble of commercial publishing houses and literary corporations will allow the exploration of new audiences. The volume, which arouse and developed along a series of parties of the same name, masks uncomfortable truths with humour and poetry, combines truisms and platitudes with street wisdom and captures the zeitgeist of a generation Y. The aphorisms allow for cynical and partly ironical self-cognition of a generation who’s controlled excess is always just a weekend away.
