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Issue 1

Better Argument Magazine

Inaugural Edition

Issue 1 asks what it means to build, use, and be shaped by machines. Contributors draw on Aristotle and Arendt, Plato and Lyotard, ancient rhetoric and evolutionary biology, to examine surveillance and the algorithmic self, AI and the ethics of writing, the collapse of shared public space, and the myth of Talos — the bronze giant who may be the oldest story we have about a guardian technology that fails the very people it was built to protect.

The magazine is edited for readers who want their thinking about technology to be as rigorous as the technology itself: skeptical of both breathless boosterism and reflexive doomerism, and committed to arguments that hold up under real scrutiny.

What you get

✓A print magazine, designed to be read start to finish, not scrolled — cover art by Vazgen Ananyan

✓Writers ranging from a computational rhetoric researcher to a working fiction novelist to a classics scholar

✓Real engagement with real thinkers: Aristotle, Arendt, Plato, Lyotard, Jameson, Deleuze, Goethe

✓Essays built to be re-read: dense enough to reward a second pass, clear enough not to need one

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Writers of the Inaugural Edition

Featuring essays and fiction from Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin, Benjamin Scott, Tilda Nilsson, Dr. Kayla-Megan Burns, Maxwell Norman, Dr. Shannon Chamberlain, Bryan Dawson, Collin Fields, Daniel Rodriguez, Jack Schaaf, and James Hartree.

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