Amor Cringe - BookWyrm

English language

Published 2022 by Deluge Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-7362104-4-4

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Amor Cringe explores the dually base and beautiful aspects of self-obsessed media culture. In a perennial bohemian style, an unnamed, ungendered protagonist travels from coast to coast and affair to affair, stumbling upon various moments of failure, absurd insight, and flashes of transcendence.

Half traditionally-written and half AI-generated, Amor Cringe is a "deepfake autofiction" novelette about a TikTok influencer that seeks God, created with the intention to be "as cringe as possible.” The result is a painfully self-aware series of encounters that exfoliate the repulsive and fascinating aesthetics of romantic life under social media.

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Jim Brown reviewed Amor Cringe by K. Allado-McDowell

One rule: make it as cringe as possible

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K Allado-McDowell wrote this book with GPT-3, mixing their own voice with that of the LLM. The only rule they followed while writing was to make it "as cringe as possible." I'm interested in how the book is steeped in the bodily (lots of sex) while also making clear the lack of connection in a world shaped by social media. The main character is lost in a world of people who are the "main character," looking for community in religious communities and raves. They never find that community - they mostly just offer hallucinatory episodes (GPT) is good at that.

Subjects

Fiction, general
Fiction, religious