Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/

I shared last time, sharing again. Brilliant essay/research

“A year after the encampments, it feels like people in my life — largely cultural workers who live in big cities — are all feeling political, but many of them seem to feel surprisingly alone in it.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

These five poems are incredible; by three anonymous Palestinian students in an Israeli university system H/t @prisonculture.bsky.social #poem #poems #poetry www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Terrifying. "Over and over the DHS agents at the fair emphasized how [travel] was the best part of their job. A longtime ICE agent said he had accompanied undocumented immigrants on deportation flights to more than fifty countries." @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Beneath familiar folk and blues chord progressions, Hurley presented a cryptic symbology of images cribbed from the country’s popular culture, an upside-down, Looney Tunes universe populated by songs that could be as simple as a Mother Goose rhyme. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises, and the AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This Thursday in Brooklyn: celebrate n+1’s Fall issue with readings and a party! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

a great essay on that very genre of writing! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“We are near an old strain of folk utopianism, one that depicts the afterlife as a place with towers of food rising to the heavens.” New: Sam Dembling (@demblehoffer) on Michael Hurley. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Longer read, but the best I've read in a while on why no one should be using AI shit. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Gotta print these out on peppermint scratch-n-sniff paper

Next week: a party in Greenpoint! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“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...

n+1 is seeking a full-time managing editor to work with us in our Brooklyn office. Details are here: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

It’s hard to identify anything functional about Trumpian stupidity, which is less a form of organizational inertia than a slash-and-burn assault on the very things—universities, public health, market data—that help make the world intelligible. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

This is really insightful and impressively done: Will Davies (@will-davies.bsky.social), "Stupidology: The outsourcing of judgment" (@nplusonemag.com): www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

I hope @nplusonemag.com streams or records this sold-out event! "Can New Yorkers have nice things? With a Mamdani mayoralty almost in reach, it seems tantalizingly possible—but what kinds of nice things should we have?" All ?'s newly complicated by DC's threats secure.givelively.org/event/n1-fou...

For the last few years, @nplusonemag.com has published some of the best non-academic ecocriticism. Just finished Ben Philipps's "Evasive Species," on avant-garde ecopoetry, and it is wonderfully though-provoking... www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/rev...

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Besides the general correctness, the writing style in this piece absolutely sings. AI could never.

Really enjoyable. Many good one-liners, but my favorite: "​AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

It’s OK to be a Luddite! ✊ "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender..." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... Superb manifesto for resisting the Large Language Muddle @nplusonemag.com 👏

Down with slop! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Particularly compelled by how Sarah Khatry and @aprzhu.bsky.social's @nplusonemag.com interview shows the ways Chen's poor craft obscures Israel's colonial project. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“What are you competing at?” I ask. “Is there a way to be good at this?” “No,” says Paul. “Well . . .” says the Expert, who does seem like an expert. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

COLORED TELEVISION recalled a line in VINELAND: “Minute the Tube got hold of you folks that was it, that whole alternative America, el deado meato, just like th’ Indians, sold it all to your real enemies, and even in 1970 dollars—it was way too cheap.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." @nplusonemag.com incinerating GenAI with a flamethrower <3

Can New Yorkers have nice things? On October 14, join n+1 and the Center for Architecture for a conversation about the architecture and built environment of 21st-century urban social democracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“Rumor has it that when straight couples go to conferences together, which is probably not a good idea, the woman always loses it. We were meant to study all of this, too.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

I so enjoyed reading this in @nplusonemag.com: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social thinking about groups, group relations, Bion, the left as she moves between experiences in a Palestine encampment and in the annual Tavistock Institute of Human Relations group conference www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

I did not get especially close to the prison executive in our group, but I asked her over dinner how she’d picked her career. “Back in college I got fascinated by the concept of a total institution,” she said. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

On the left we believe in collectivism, but it’s rarely easy. Groups are incubators for social anxiety. They tend to have problems. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

this is so good—i already know i'm going to read it again and again

“Within the experimental enclosure, you say things you didn’t think you could possibly say. Then you see others see you saying them, and then you do it again.” Now out from behind the paywall: @lilyscherlis.bsky.social on group relations. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

“I wondered if I looked like the type of girl who had a dead mother.” New: fiction by Natasha Stagg. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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'