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by Caiero • 13 days ago

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PaulHoule• 9 days ago

You can cultivate an aristocratic attitude even if you never had that much money by USian standards. I mean, as much as we complain about medicine as a kafkaesque nightmare and nexus of inequality [1] it is a miracle not least vaccines, antibiotics, statin drugs, dental implants were never available to the richest people in the Ancien Regime. A character in a 18th century novel might spirit his lover away to Paris from the backwaters of France, now for the rest of us there is Ryanair.

It's quite a healthy way to deal with elite overproduction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5kKqUETbE&list=RDmM5kKqUET...

oliculipolicula2• 9 days ago

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https://youtu.be/_Y8mpClnuAI

[Next Gen] Editors of n+1 on a Panel

I should also have put an upper bound on the votes!

lordleft• 9 days ago

Naomi is an awesome writer and she's been doing many of these deep dives into literary journals. She's also reviewed entire historic genres (like old westerns), IIRC. She has a really unique ability to plainly grasp what's special about a group of related writing.

nateburke• 9 days ago

Issue 4 is incredible, I bought a damaged copy for a buck and it was the best literary dollar I have ever spent!

projektfu• 9 days ago

I discovered I live in a parallel universe from the author, having heard nothing about anything this article references.

p-e-w• 9 days ago

This happens to me every time I take a quick look at the “high culture” world, be it literature, art, music, or general intellectualism. I have a minor in philosophy and consider myself reasonably well-read, but today’s avantgarde is nothing like that of the past, and seems above all else designed to be exclusionary.

stackghost• 9 days ago

Exclusionary isn't the term. I'm not sure there is one specific term in English, but today's high culture all seems to be predicated upon feigning enlightenment, or pretending to have a deep understanding.

My wife's sister did an art degree, for example, and she and her friends wouldn't stop gushing about purposefully-inscrutable postmodern nonsense like Derrida, who was an absolute hack.

All that aside, N+1 sounds like it's the sort of thing I would enjoy read. I didn't get the sense that it was written to be exclusionary, but maybe I just didn't get the full picture from TFA.

appplication• 9 days ago

Your comment made me laugh but I had a similar experience. It felt almost voyeuristic with how far I am from whoever they’re trying to reach, like I’m reading someone’s private journal.

jagged-chisel• 9 days ago

I almost mistook the article as a work of fiction

nine_k• 9 days ago

Isn't it good? On one hand, the world is more rich than you (and I) had thought. On the other hand, the people who would go for a Communist revolution do not surface near you as prominent media figures, at least, not yet.

hackingonempty• 9 days ago

n+1 is a New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction. It is published in print three times annually with regular articles being published online. Each print issue averages around 200 pages in length.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%2B1

** unless you are into cycling/guitars/keyboards/hotrods/whatever then "N+1" is the ideal number of bikes/guitars/keyboards/cars/whatever to own where N is the number you currently have.

flurie• 9 days ago

A particular highlight of n+1 for me was issue 11, which contained a retrospective review of the site Pitchfork[1], an essay chronicling the author's experience at their first Gathering of the Juggalos[2], and an excerpt of Helen DeWitt's excellent novel Lightning Rods[3].

Issue 24's The Intellectual Situation[4] has a phrase I still think about frequently:

"you have to choose your irrationality or it will choose you."

I have not been a consistent reader, but reading it is a constant delight.

[1] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-12/reviews/pitchfork/

[2] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-12/essays/american-juggalo...

[3] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-12/fiction-drama/lightning...

[4] https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-24/the-intellectual-situat...

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