Follow n+1 » Articles, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/n-1-articles Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:30:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziFlsBYw0GqQaB2UxGNFpJ
A panel discussion and series of readings from Paper Monument’s 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,part of the Institute for Comparative Modernities’ Fall 2021 New Books Series. Featuring readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and contributors Christopher K. Ho, Daisy Nam, Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Ossip, and Dushko Petrovich.  Ifikhar Dadi will present […]]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:21:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziFlsBYw0GqQaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewxr8RistRNl5u9CxXrVx4c
This walk at the end of the day was meant to cleanse the palette. But as the sky went from pale purple to deep purple, the roiling Gulf of Mexico disappearing into darkness, we again turned to our phones. First to mine, looking at images of the fallen trees, fallen houses, the map that indicated that power was out in all of New Orleans. Then she showed me her friends’ snaps, the ones who were still in New Orleans, “hunkering down,” in the parlance. “Riding it out.” The snap of water coming into the house, under a door; the snap of the doughy cookies that were in progress when the power went out.]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:56:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewxr8RistRNl5u9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewxr8RistRNlwVLTsI7B9NX
State officials lease our land to petrochemical engineering companies that produce the plastics and poisons that all but ensure we lose everything to climate change, at which point they will find someplace else to go. There are fewer and fewer wetlands to buffer storms on their way to the shore as a result of catastrophic losses to the region’s biodiversity. Don’t get me fucking started on the damming of the Mississippi, which would otherwise naturally rebuild the marsh by continuously depositing sediment it brought down.]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:51:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewxr8RistRNlwVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew4jgDekRzSwABC78OgjhDM
It is worth recalling that “we don’t do body counts” became the Bush administration’s unofficial motto in the early years of the global war on terror, and that reporting on Afghan civilian deaths did not even begin until 2007. In 2017 the Department of Defense stopped reporting the number of US military personnel deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and in 2019, President Trump signed an executive order that revoked the requirement for US intelligence to report on civilian casualties outside of areas of “Active Hostilities.” Taken together, these actions indicate a clear preference to render both the nature of military interventions and their costs invisible.]]> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:58:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew4jgDekRzSwABC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyHDmjgZ0slDTErtZyObPkc
Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder, tells me that he wishes more of the web was shaped like the Dead Archive. “What you’re looking at,” he said, “is from an era of the Internet that I think is best typified by what Tim Berners-Lee called ‘pages.’” Today, he said, instead, what dominates is the “feed.” (“Horrible word,” he added.) Facebook and Twitter scroll by endlessly, unaccountably, and unpleasantly, but “it wasn’t always that way, and it was a choice.”]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:20:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyHDmjgZ0slDTErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezuxXLwYxoRKxhSCv31NykC
Since its first issue in 2004, n+1 has been committed to publishing clear-eyed writing about the endless and ongoing war on terror. This week, as the US presence in Afghanistan comes to some kind of end, we’re looking back at pieces from the archives about the origins, consequences, and failures of the US’s long and […]]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:13:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezuxXLwYxoRKxhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyGUMlgDsQvdCoxzwoq1nFt
Bodies, dozens of them, flailing and caving in convulsion rhythms, their limbed forms flaming as if harrowed by fears erupting from cellular levels. One body turns and turns in place, immobilized by movement. One dives to the earth as his shirt lifts off and floats inflated before covering him like a shroud. A ragged silhouette arms semaphores no one can understand.]]> Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:25:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyGUMlgDsQvdCoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewH0TjgMzrQpaJCIqJppjfU
Once safely out of office, he acknowledged that “millions of Americans” had been “spooked by a black man in the White House.” An undeniable truth, but one that was miles away from the embrocations he had offered the country when he launched his national career by declaring that “there is not a black America and a white America.” That kind of thing sounds like denialism to some, a postracial utopia to others, and then, in certain places, like a threat.]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:30:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewH0TjgMzrQpaJCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexAyyY3J3HaGyuZukmJ4mr4
Activists get mad at the overly cautious politicians. Politicians get mad at the activists for asking them to do stuff that might cost them their jobs. Various coalition actors get mad that a focus on environmental racism means that some unionized workers might have to stop doing what they’re doing. Environmental justice folks feel that workers don’t think or care enough the impacts of what they do.]]> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:54:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexAyyY3J3HaGyuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpextvauUHN58QzErtZyObPkc
Every two years, when the Olympic institution plants its flag in a new city, speculators from metropolitan Lausanne meet with profiteers in the new athletic colony. They hover over the city map with carving knives, repurposing public spaces and re-zoning residences. Together, for the sake of a two-week event, they take over the territory, line their pockets with public resources, bring in outside workers, and push long-established locals aside.]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:53:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpextvauUHN58QzErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexK_q4MPnjZzXHnycKeoCpf
All social media both feeds and feeds on narcissism, but Twitter’s capacity to mirror the world and its users’ neuroses in discrete verbal and visual units, at least in certain corners of the site, elevates self-regard to a formal principle. We compulsively iterate ourselves as memes, set pieces, and DIY allegorical photos, as if hoping we’ll eventually perfect the reflection.]]> Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:18:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexK_q4MPnjZzXHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziK8-5ax0gf1RpWVnEcNkS
When I read In the Freud Archives for the first time, I understood myself to be looking for facts, dates, quotations—material. The material was there, and like a good nonfiction writer I dutifully underlined and annotated, but I also found that the particulars of the story she told had difficulty competing with the writing she used to tell it.]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:20:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziK8-5ax0gf1RpWVnEcNkS https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziK8-5ax0gf4vmyuk5fxzE On Friday, July 16, novelist Dana Spiotta discussed her new book, Wayward, with n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov. A recording of the conversation is below; the novel is available now in the n+1 bookstore.]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:00:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeziK8-5ax0gf4vmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex8AtnUWvjQn8qq6eZJzUh9
That’s a Berlantism: “what’s . . .” “What’s incoherent or enigmatic in our attachments.” “What’s collective about specific modes of sensual activity.” “Navigating what’s overwhelming.” Lauren could write, man; they could really do the damn thing. Most people in the academy can’t, which isn’t their fault, because they are taught not to and teach their students not to in turn. What a beautiful disservice Lauren did us, to make us believe that the university was a place where love, care, and original thought could flourish.]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:02:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex8AtnUWvjQn8qq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezSDMh3l0BjdyVCAQLB0bf5
Join n+1 publisher and coeditor Mark Krotov in conversation with novelist Dana Spiotta. They’ll be discussing Spiotta’s new novel, Wayward, an excerpt of which will appear in n+1’s forthcoming summer issue. The conversation is free and open to the public; RSVP via Zoom. 12 PM EST Friday, July 16 RSVP via Zoom]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:02:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezSDMh3l0BjdyVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex40e599YuWKUGb1Jh49AJn
One way to think about the viral explainers of the viral photo is that their function was almost pharmacological. A rapidly disseminated image that leads to spinning heads requires a dose of fast-acting cultural Dramamine. Speed is key. With the internet producing the weird stories, and grabbing all the ads that go with them, traditional media has been forced to move to the higher ground of analysis, but that was never journalism’s forte. So, somewhere between newsfeed dazzle and the insight that comes later (if at all), explanation became a familiar part of the information age news cycle. Sometimes, it’s enough. Other times, we are being told to stare at Jimmy Carter’s huge shoes until the vertigo abides.]]> Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:10:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex40e599YuWKUGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexgxphM444eB3tuT6pSmY81
While private companies should not have been given so much power over Victoria’s hotel quarantine, the program itself illuminates the swiftness with which this country reaches for tools of punitive confinement. Initial evacuations of Chinese-Australians from Wuhan in early 2020 were sent to Christmas Island. Hotel quarantine may be a comparatively benign and expedient manifestation of that impulse, but others during the pandemic have not been so.]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:48:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexgxphM444eB3tuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewim7khnJuxqgp41t9tiERU
In the early days, when my condition seemed transient, I kept making commitments—to projects, to people—in the presumption that things would be normal soon. Maybe next month, maybe next year, definitely the year after that. I kept saying yes to everything until each yes eventually turned into a can’t. I never said no.]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:07:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewim7khnJuxqgp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezWz7dc_zvssK8qfTAM-Smm
My own sense of Roth is that the motive behind his books, his drive and ambition as a writer, has everything to do with his unceasing energy as a seducer—a seducer of readers as well as of living people, friends and lovers. One might argue, again, that the intimate connection between eros and the desire to communicate with readers is true of many writers—but in Roth’s case I wonder if he might have been a better writer, certainly a freer one, if he had been able to unknot the two impulses a bit more.]]> Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:02:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezWz7dc_zvssK8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyZhAGUQF4qJm7fhEn5oRuR
A billboard whose finer print I can’t read says FREEDOM and the next says EMPIRE (an insurance group) and the next says ESCAPE REALITY (an image of a boat). This road leads to Lake Superior, which might as well be an ocean. 35 takes you to the end of America, or the beginning, depending on whom you ask. But there’s an energy to the ends of things. Cars and trucks are driving very fast.]]> Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:25:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyZhAGUQF4qJm7fhEn5oRuR