As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

From Issue 49: an appreciation of Fredric Jameson, who died a year ago today. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/the...

Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit.”

The Trump administration’s attack on trans rights is more than a headache—it’s state-sanctioned endangerment. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Why send in the DEA to execute an immigration raid unrelated to drugs—to, in effect, do the work of ICE? This flexibility of objective and jurisdiction is a feature of police power. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This is great. 'A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging'

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

"So far, so Capital, volume one. Then there is our own unpaid labor of interpretation and optimization. When we grade an AI-generated essay, we accord it a kind of dignity."

n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... >>

Send to all your colleagues either extolling or quivering before LLM-reliant writing

"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger

“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

"When we use generative AI, we stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

"Whatever nuance is needed for its interception, resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

Man gave names to things he thought were worthy of a story. The bitch below me was Devon, a Nederlandse Kooikerhondje. Later came Surprise, a border collie. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Give yourself a distraction. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

It's ok to be a Luddite!

Last March, I and other editors at Guernica resigned over the publication of an essay by an Israeli writer about treading the line of empathy. The ensuing criticism—'condemn even empathy?'—pushed my ex-colleague and I to re-interrogate the piece's shortcomings. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Read an excerpt of Ariana Harwicz's Unfit (out October 7th) in @nplusonemag.com

Does the AI skeptic have nothing else to fall back on than an enumeration of mankind’s shortcomings? Are our worst qualities the best we can do? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“I had studied art and writing that was—and I mean this literally, fully aware of the irony, given the past decade’s hand-wringing over political correctness—canceled.” In n+1’s brand-new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on art and freedom under Trump. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

So I told everyone that night At Chapel Bar, where a boy spoke Of trying to suffocate himself With a bag that had once held Snacks, but the second he smelled Sour cream and chive, he knew He had to stay. “I thought you Would laugh at that,” and I did. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/poe...

“'I learned all these skills in the army — smash and grabs, site exploitation — and never got to use them,' [the man applying to ICE] said. 'So I’m here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country.'" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

ICE in Harlan County The deportation machine’s local partners www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

I wrote about the cancellation of Andil Gosine's exhibit and art censorship under Trump for @nplusonemag.com. Read here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

“The escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.” In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by @will-davies.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Superb, highly recommend.

Very happy to have a piece in here on stupidity critique

Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

As the federal government deputizes these federal, state, and local agencies to partake in ICE’s work, it remakes existing infrastructure and political relationships in ICE’s image: remakes them, that is, toward fascism. @jacknorton.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

new poems in this issue!!!

thank you @nplusonemag.com for publishing this piece about the infrastructure of deportation in rural Kentucky and beyond www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social @liv-veazey.bsky.social @rodriquese.bsky.social @jacknorton.bsky.social @tricialockwood.bsky.social @lilyscherlis.bsky.social . . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

The owner, bending slowly with her knees, gently lifted her dog and held her out before her like a roast pulled from a low oven rack. “I think she smells so fresh,” she said, whiffing Muffin’s coat. “See for yourself. She’s super addictive.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

2. “God Dog” —Mina Tavakoli “There’s a poetry to Tavakoli’s wit; she makes you laugh not just with her scenework and her perspective, but with the chaotic matchmaking of her language.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Kevin was basically a small brown melon with a huge pair of nuts.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In our Top 5: *The doctor is always in @restofworld.org *The good boy @nplusonemag.com *The pathway of pigment @emergencemagazine.bsky.social *The shame of Mary Oliver @yalereview.bsky.social *The wealthy on water @vanityfair.com longreads.com/2025/09/05/t...

“Cutesy eugenics is a thing now.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Tomorrow (September 4) at 7pm EST, be part of this in-person @nplusonemag.com event where @alybatt.bsky.social will be in-conversation with senior editor Colin Vanderburg to discuss her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. RSVP here:

“The story of IHOP was all about internationalism, but not the generic kind. it was like IKEA—Scandinavian. It was the International House of Pancakes, and it was international because, you know, there were various syrups of the world there.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...