US EditionIrvine Welsh Takes Aim at 'Brain Atrophying' Tech Ahead of New Trainspotting Sequel
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, JUL 11 – Welsh critiques AI and social media as contributing to cultural decline while releasing Men in Love, a sequel exploring love and social decay in 1990s Edinburgh.
- Scottish writer Irvine Welsh will release Men in Love, a follow-up to his influential 1993 debut Trainspotting, on July 24, 2025.
- Welsh wrote the original Trainspotting during the early 1990s, drawing on the 1980s decline of heavy industry like shipbuilding in Edinburgh's Leith area.
- Men in Love continues the story against economic challenges and evolving class dynamics, while Welsh critiques technology, social media, and AI for reducing critical thinking.
- Welsh warned that relying on machines to do the thinking can cause mental decline and urged a renewed emphasis on love to counteract the pervasive negativity in today’s world.
- The sequel's release signals ongoing cultural relevance for Welsh's characters and themes, highlighting societal transformation and a call for more thoughtful engagement with technology.
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel Trainspotting as an antidote to a world full of "hate and poison", as he took aim at social media, the internet and AI, reported AFP. Men in Love, the latest in a series of sequels, follows the same characters — Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie — as they experience the heyday of rave culture in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Welsh's novel was turned into the wild…
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Scottish writer Irvine Welsh described Friday the expected sequel to his famous novel Trainspotting, which will be published in English on July 24, as an antidote to a world full of “hate and poison.”
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Irvine Welsh takes aim at 'brain atrophying' tech ahead of new Trainspotting sequel
Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel "Trainspotting" as an antidote to a world full of "hate and poison", as he took aim at social media, the internet and AI.
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