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Amygdalatropolis

by Edia Connole

A digital refuge built from fear and alienation

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A digital refuge built from fear and alienation

Amygdalatropolis is presented as a literary work about retreat from ordinary reality into an online environment shaped by pornography, clickbait, and scapegoating. Its central figure, identified as /1404er/, has turned away from family and social life; the description frames the digital world he inhabits as a closed system where sexual fear and aggression circulate. The source’s dense, theoretical language points to concerns with technology, isolation, and a post-truth culture, while offering little conventional plot detail. This is a premise-led description of a work concerned with the boundaries between online life and human connection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction addressing internet culture and digital alienation.
  • Readers drawn to experimental or concept-driven fiction with a focus on technology and social withdrawal.

Themes

Digital cultureAlienation and social withdrawalSexual fear and aggressionPost-truth culture

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Book overview

From Schism[2] Press

Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal pornutopia voided of all bedeutung other than the residual, electronic prickling of sexual fear and auto-autistic aggression where software and synapse flicker in an endless algorithmic loop. Norburt Wiener's apocalyptic steersman leads directly here: a psychopathological cyberutopia heading straight into the lake of fire.

Scott Wilson, author of Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism

Yeager's haphephobic protagonist /1404er/ has got over reality, family or the social and moved on - to a somewhat more tenable amnion of snuff porn, clickbait and casual online scapegoating. Amygdalatropolis inhabits our post-truth heterotopia like some virulent new literary life form, perfectly tooled for the death of worlds.

David Roden, author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human

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