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N+1(woman-of-letters.com)

34 points by Caiero 4 days ago | 7 comments

projektfu 54 minutes ago |

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

appplication 43 minutes 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 41 minutes ago | |

I almost mistook the article as a work of fiction

nine_k 31 minutes 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.

p-e-w 46 minutes 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 35 minutes 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.

lordleft 2 hours 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 1 hour ago |

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

PaulHoule 2 hours 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...