Transcription - Ben Lerner digital culture thus keeping reality close to

thus keeping reality close to the surreal

but much stranger

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an exploration of the unspoken element of the erotic in the attraction of extremism…’ (Sjón)

Transcription - Ben Lerner digital culture thus keeping reality close toA writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety year old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomass house with no recording device a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess. What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other,