BenjaminMatthews

ps if you're interested in the reëmerging Frankenstein zeitgeist re social commentary , check out NPR weekend edition's codeswitch podcast:
          https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1197956379/in-chicano-frankenstein-the-undead-are-the-new-underpaid-labor-force
          
          And really: keep up the great work, man... reach out anytime by email:) -Ben

AndrewBro244

@BenjaminMatthews @BenjaminMatthews By the way, I'm trying to post as only fleshed-out excerpts here if you're interested: https://narrativesbyastutteringfanatic.wordpress.com/
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AndrewBro244

@BenjaminMatthews I'll take a look, thanks.
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BenjaminMatthews

2) ...As your new editor and cultural-behavioral advisor, I entreat you to trust me to know I'm, like, WAY better than AI in practical terms. For one, I can offer you a real dialogue between peers, and not just a simulation of norms that ultimately apply to no one. 
          
          ...But you have to trust me, Andrew. Think you can do that...? 
          
          No, I didn't think so. No problem. I get it. But, from one student of Philosophy (that brief history in which animal-man has considered himself something other-than) to another, we may both take a moment to imagine the origin and dawn of something like real and lasting trust being exchanged in public, for all the world to see, of two flesh and blood humans, alive in the technological age, take each other by the hand, and walk boldly into the unknown, where, to paraphrase the immortal Bowie, endure the greatest adventure any one person could ever have." 
          
          And, but, my hand, Andrew, it's... 
          
          not as gross as it looks...  -Ben/Benrushmatthews@gmail.com
          
          3) ...Who has time to read anything anymore??? Are you still here, even? Like, how about a real cultural movement already, and not just the mindless endless reactions of the running-scared as they race toward and away from the tumbling monoliths of its former culture? Looking up (or back) at the shadow, we see being seamlessly repackaged before us, again and again, each new iteration of capitalist-driven technology; a glitter effect to distract us from the impending crush  --- as gravity deftly, fully replaces the myths that sustained them, those monoliths, if only in the mind... 
          
          SO, like, some new ideas, you know? We are a fake nation, sure, but one there for the creatin'...
          
          PS. Shoham sent me...lol
          
          https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSgGSlUVT50au7cqzMQegwFJSKV458HG4wlyt4fzs1OWlmZq73t58hOk138ugwaIIUdINgqrMZ5AFDb/pub

AndrewBro244

@BenjaminMatthews  Thanks for the feedback, Benjamin! A part of me was actually considering  using an AI like splurge of information in the form of binary/java/C++ or python but I'm not sure how that would fare. I think even writing nonsense for the sake of social commentary has it's perks it still might come off as pretentious or indulgent by others. I've also tried encasing myself in layers self-awareness saying things like "I know this novel is egocentric and self-serving, but isn't any form of art inherently such?" In fact, it gets quite abstruse and recursive at parts. 
            I've also used it as an excuse to write from EVERY  feasible personality I could garner up from the hyper-sensitive depressives, the artist-poet who derides rationality, the rational person who hates romanticism, the sociopathic offenders who skirt responsibility, to those in who've regressed into a childish state to the schizophrenics or schizotypal who defy categorization, I hope to address as much as the human condition in all it's totality, even though I know it's impossible, I still would  like to try. 
            I like what you said about "the mindless reactions of it's former culture." I've been getting really into the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari recently and I love what they say of creating a kind of new thinking that isn't painfully derivative of older permutations of the 'roots' of culture, as previous thinkers had relied on with Platonic/Neoplatonic perfect forms to abide in. They  sought to move away from what they thought limiting and try only to think in a 'rhizomatic' manner and also to escape the entanglements of Freud's analytic school of always referring back to sexual neurosis and whatnot (Anti-Oedipus). That's why I think so many post-structural/deconstructionists owed a lot to Nietzsche since he advocated for adopting new values in favor of old bygones of traditions.  
            I'll keep in touch, 
            Andrew
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BenjaminMatthews

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Hi, Andrew. Great work and a great mind you got there! Naturally, I wanted to add some notes to this little shit sandwich. 1) Your first sentence to your newest book should be...
          
          "Doug is visibly skeptical at first but then Dr. Leeds shows him the clone. It's of Dr. Leeds. "Maybe this was a mistake..." The blubbering drooling humanoid mass is then wheeled once more into the broom closet, where Dr. Leads keeps all his proofs of concept. Closing the closet door he apologizes. "I really should spent more time with him." But Doug wasn't listening. Doug is convinced. 
          
          The process, he has been assured, lasts no more than four hours. “Four short, albeit meme-free hours….” Dr. Leeds whispered pleasantly into his ear from behind as he gently guided young Doug by the shoulders back behind the plasma vaults to a dull rose-colored pleather chair. All the anticipated attachments laid in disarray, but to Doug's surprise, these will turn out to be for monitoring purposes only…. Dr. Leeds hands him a drink, which Doug thoughtlessly downs in a go. “Blech, what was that,” Doug spits into his sleeve. The doctor continues fastening the chest and brow straps. “Whaddya mean, kid? That was it. Like I said, you gotta wait about four hours, six tops. Then the baby, uh, you, let’s say, well, he’ll crawl outta ya. Right up the ‘ol gullet, and out. I’ll take it from there. Fully grown in three months. I’ll give you the visiting hours as and when we’re finally stable…”
          
          “Okay.... so.. No memes for more like SIX hours then. Fucking great….”
          
          ...

AndrewBro244

@BenjaminMatthews Hi, Benjamin! I'll definitely keep your suggestions in deep consideration. I can't remember why I wrote an academic paper for the movie Multiplicity but I think I just found the idea of someone treating it like it was intellectual gold to be hilarious at the time. I liked how Richard Ayoade wrote this whole book called "Ayoade on Top" where he dissects everything there is to know about the movie View From the Top  with Gwyneth Paltrow in a very tongue-in-cheek way. But I could definitely incorporate the character of Doug and Dr. Leeds into the story somehow, lol.
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