Transcription - Ben Lerner digital culture Whether it’s a description of

Whether it’s a description of a two thousand-year old set of letters carved on a Roman monument or a stream of digital letters on Whatsapp

and the histories still unfurling today

thus keeping reality close to the surreal

based in London

Transcription - Ben Lerner digital culture Whether it’s a description ofA 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,