Obscene? Yes please!

After reading the article, The Aesthetics of Post-Realism and the Obscenification of Everyday Life, I feel a compulsion to respond to the article. Gonzalez finds fault with a number of things concerning transgressive British literature and the postmodern condition in general. Although I am not a literary studies major, nor am I able to quote Baudrillard, I think Gonzalez is missing something essential about the experience of reading, which to me seems quite timeless. There is no doubt our exposure to media and resultant over stimulation have had an effect on our attention span and what we find ourselves entertained by. However, I think this is exactly what the transgressive style aims to get at it in its form. That is, first and foremost we find ourselves in intensely stimulated scenarios and it is as if this is utilized in order to ask the reader from the onset to acknowledge and explore this actuality in context. I think the transgressive literary style is reckoning not with its inadequacy as a medium, but rather changing minds and consciousness. More specifically I mean, to get the full spectrum of certain ideas, their interconnectedness and relevance in our world though, the content is indeed conflated. That is, in the age of information, we simply know more. As a result of knowing more I would argue we make more connections, we see more correlations -regardless of their apparent truth. Therefore, the satirical tone and content must be prepared to handle how loaded these ideas like sexuality and identity have become. Of course, some of the authors in my opinion are more capable than others in their attempts. Although it may seem crude and as Gonzalez seems to imply, indicative of some sort of degeneration, I would argue that perhaps the space between past and present is transgression. That is, perhaps transgressive literature is the experiment of present that will signal a shift in how we read and write.