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Worth every minute of your time
“The history of the music industry is a history of conglomeration.” New: Rob Arcand on Liz Pelly’s MOOD MACHINE and Andrew DeWaard’s DERIVATIVE MEDIA.
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Worth every minute of your time
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thanks to @nplusonemag.com and @robarcand.bsky.social for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social, a book I absolutely love
“The history of the music industry is a history of conglomeration.” New: Rob Arcand on Liz Pelly’s MOOD MACHINE and Andrew DeWaard’s DERIVATIVE MEDIA.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
thanks to @nplusonemag.com and @robarcand.bsky.social for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by @lizpelly.bsky.social, a book I absolutely love
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November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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@hamrahrama.bsky.social on the doorstep nudges the week in the right direction. I will be cracking this open tonight. Must-read film writing. #booksky
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
@hamrahrama.bsky.social on the doorstep nudges the week in the right direction. I will be cracking this open tonight. Must-read film writing. #booksky
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Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
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November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bookmatch is so fun and this year if you do it you might get one of my four book recs 👀
We’re heading into the final stretch of our annual Bookmatch. Take this year’s quiz before it’s gone!
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November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"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."
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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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November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"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."
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don’t make me choose between my children n+1 bookmatch quiz 2025
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz is, indeed, great fun... see example shared below. And every year, the "matches" have suggested books I would never otherwise see or somehow missed. Haven't read all, but found some new favorites. Enjoy the quiz by Dec and the books for the long term.
the annual @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch makes me laugh SO hard that a top reward tier should simply be a recommending something equally as funny
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch quiz is, indeed, great fun... see example shared below. And every year, the "matches" have suggested books I would never otherwise see or somehow missed. Haven't read all, but found some new favorites. Enjoy the quiz by Dec and the books for the long term.
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I am partaking! I definitely need more things to read. Yes.
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am partaking! I definitely need more things to read. Yes.
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the annual @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch makes me laugh SO hard that a top reward tier should simply be a recommending something equally as funny
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the annual @nplusonemag.com Bookmatch makes me laugh SO hard that a top reward tier should simply be a recommending something equally as funny
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N+1 bookmatch quiz exactly as delightful as I've heard
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
N+1 bookmatch quiz exactly as delightful as I've heard
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The Other Route | Gillian Linden
He wouldn’t be thinking of my daughter, but then I also hadn’t been thinking of my daughter. Now I brought to mind her classroom, which I’d seen only once, during parents’ night. I brought it to mind ...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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My Bookmatch results from @nplusonemag.com include 3 books I've read and one that I own but haven't cracked yet. Let NO ONE say this isn't scientifically calibrated! Excited for the rest.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My Bookmatch results from @nplusonemag.com include 3 books I've read and one that I own but haven't cracked yet. Let NO ONE say this isn't scientifically calibrated! Excited for the rest.
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Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
“Meanwhile, resolution? It just sort of glides away, on a cartel schooner or a tech bro’s limo or—this time around—an unsurrendered WWI submarine.” On Thomas Pynchon’s detective novels:
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Meanwhile, resolution? It just sort of glides away, on a cartel schooner or a tech bro’s limo or—this time around—an unsurrendered WWI submarine.” On Thomas Pynchon’s detective novels:
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dream assignment complete
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
dream assignment complete
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Three companies—Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music control more than 80% of all recorded music released. And they do so with an iron fist, guarding access to their catalogs, whether through album sales, streaming, radio, or commercial licensing. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Three companies—Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music control more than 80% of all recorded music released. And they do so with an iron fist, guarding access to their catalogs, whether through album sales, streaming, radio, or commercial licensing. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️ New Mark on Pynchon bsky.app/profile/nplu...
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️ New Mark on Pynchon bsky.app/profile/nplu...
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com
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The Same Stream Twice | Rob Arcand
Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
grateful for this thoughtful & wide-ranging piece by Rob Arcand on the state of the financialized culture industry & what criticism of it is for, that puts Mood Machine in conversation with Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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