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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 28d

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...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 21h

“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...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 22h

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/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 23h

“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.
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Overshooters | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

It was not the underprivileged who took the initiative. It was one Luke Iseman, merchant of hardware and software, founder of multiple companies, former director of a “tech incubator,” builder of art ...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 2d

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...

Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6d

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...

What Could Mamdani’s New York Look Like?
Tue, Oct 14th 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT · By n+1 Foundation
Date & Time
Tue, Oct 14th 2025 at 6:00 - 8:00pm ET
Center for Architecture Foundation
536 LaGuardia Place
New York New York, 10012
Event Details
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?

On Tuesday, October 14, n+1 and the Center for Architecture will host a freewheeling discussion of usable pasts, working models, and radical horizons for building a social democratic New York. From the humblest bike lane to the most utopian social housing, the conversation will open a space to dream big while also grappling with the policy mechanics and power dynamics of governing America’s largest city. Cultural geographer Cindi Katz, urban planner Daphne Lundi, architectural historian and editor Mariana Mogilevich, and housing researcher and writer Samuel Stein will be joined in conversation by n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov and senior editor Colin Vanderburg.

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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Evasive Species | Ben Philipps

Eco-confessionalism marshals the self-reflexivity of poetic language, its distance from everyday communication, to register commitments without reifying them, to critique the present without lapsing i...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 7d

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EJ_1892 @ej1892.bsky.social · 8d

This issue just arrived in the mail today; re-subbing n+1 again after a decade plus hiatus was a nice gift to myself this year. Could not recommend enough. I should not have stopped. Do yourself a favor. It’s cheap.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

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Pinko @pinkoscare.bsky.social · 8d

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

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 8d

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."
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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 8d

It’s OK to be a Luddite! ✊

"As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender..."

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Superb manifesto for resisting the Large Language Muddle @nplusonemag.com 👏

As we train our sights on what we oppose, let's recall the costs of surrender. 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 abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very
moment of emerging American fascism.

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Down with slop!

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 7d

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.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 8d

“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.
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8d

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 8d

Grateful to the editors of @nplusonemag.com for the clarity and force of this editorial.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Black text on a sepia background: "As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. 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 abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the further degradation of an already degraded educational system. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts. We dig ourselves deeper into crises that have been made worse by technology, from the erosion of electoral democracy to the intensification of climate change. We condone platforms that not only urge children to commit suicide, they instruct them on how to tie the noose. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 8d

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...

New TV Novels | Lisa Borst

It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...

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Thibault Prévost @wnstnsmith.bsky.social · 11d

"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

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 11d

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/...

What Could Mamdani’s New York Look Like?

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? On Tuesday, October 14, join n+1 and the Cente...

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Marc Tracy @marcatracy.bsky.social · 11d

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 11d

“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.”
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12d

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...

Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 13d

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...

Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 13d

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...

Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 14d

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

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 14d

“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.
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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis

The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

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