Morgan Meis on The Sublime

Morgan Meis at Slant Books: I was watching Vampyros Lesbos the other day, which is, shall we say, very much less than a perfect movie. It is not even, by any reasonable standard for what makes a movie

An AI Tsunami is about to Hit Science

Cesar A. Hidalgo at his own website: Much of the public conversation about AI focuses on chat interfaces like ChatGPT. But a quieter revolution is happening in command line AI systems such as Claude C

LA Reader Appreciation Party

n+1 is coming to LA, and we want to see you! Please join us for a happy hour hang in the arts district to celebrate our readers, Issue 52, and over two decades of n+1. Entry is free for subscribers an

Gugusse and the Automaton

The Library of Congress recently discovered a copy of a “long-lost” film made in ~1897 by George Méliès called Gugusse and the Automaton (Gugusse et l’Automate), which “had not been seen by anyone in

Fracking Killed Khamenei

Quico Toro at Persuasion: American military planners in the Pentagon have been wargaming scenarios for attacking Iran more or less non-stop since 1979. One major reason president after president stopp

The Hidden Hope in the Darkness

On the occasion of the release of her latest book, The Beginning Comes After the End, Rebecca Solnit sat down for an interview with David Marchese of the NY Times. Here’s the video version: This is a

The NY Times went back through a century of...

The NY Times went back through a century of women’s obituaries “to re-examine them with the benefit of distance — to see what was emphasized, what was minimized, what might have been left unsaid”. htt

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?

We don’t have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trump’s war on Iran. We need one immediately. The US war on Iran is the most unpopular a US war in history. (Fatemeh Bahra

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