Aspirationalism: The Next Literary Movement

I’d had this post simmering on the back burner for almost a year now, and I think it’s time to finish my thought in light of current events.

Back in late 2023, I coined the term “Aspirationalism” for the successor to the Post-Modernist literary movement. This came up because people were declaring this new era of post-post modernist entertainment to be several different things. From PulpRev to the Iron Age and half a dozen other different groups claiming to be the future like the artist co...