The Living Dark
Matt Cardin, Matthew GreenCreativity, consciousness, religion, horror, culture, and the examined writing life.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 194 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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AI and the Desire to Think
Yesterday I published a long essay asking whether a serious writer can use AI without losing his soul. My answer was yes, but only if AI assists the work instead of becoming the source of the work.
Today, almost as if the internet wanted t...
Can a Serious Writer Use AI Without Losing His Soul?
Dear Living Dark reader,
I bring you something different today. I have been doing a lot of thinking, experimenting, and soul-searching on the matter of artificial intelligence and whether it has any valid place in a writer’s life and work....
The Living Dark Reader, No. 2
A quarterly companion for deep reading. In this issue: the autumn longing, selfhood, language, and the hidden life of experience.
Dear Living Dark reader,
Alan Watts on Hints of a Forgotten Paradise
Alan Watts in middle age. Via Wikipedia..
Dear Living Dark readers,
For the past month, I have been hard at work on the second issue of The Living Dark Reader. And stemming from that, I want to say this:
Alan Watts’s project in Beyond Th...
The Monastery of Your Life
A monk at work in a scriptorium. Unknown artist. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Dear Living Dark readers,
In The Twilight of American Culture (2000), Morris Berman laid out a vision of the “monastic option” and the “new monastic in...
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Author of Writing at the Wellspring, To Rouse Leviathan, What the Daemon Said, and others. “[An] intimate journey into the mystery of creativity and spirit" (BookLife). "[A] thinking-man's book of the macabre" (Publishers Weekly).
Matthew Green is the creator of Resonant World, a newsletter and podcast serving the global movement to heal the individual, inter-generational and collective trauma at the root of our global crises.
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