Studying

Studies are intentional and sustained engagements with a particular text. Each season, this inquiry aims to hold one seasonal study — a practice of reading one book over the course of a season, roughly ninety days, at one's own pace. Seasonal studies can be undertaken individually or collectively, and are intended as much as occasions for dialogue as for reading.

Studies need not be seasonal, and anyone is welcome to undertake one. The invitation is to go deeply into a text, to inquire into it carefully, and to produce some kind of reflective or creative output — whatever form that naturally takes. It matters less what one reads than how one reads.

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  Beyond Interdisciplinarity

  Winter 2025

  My sense is that the book provides a framework to reimagine not just the way we produce knowledge but the transformation of the academic institutions that enable knowledge production. In a sense, then, a framework for transforming academic institutions; it seems underread and underappreciated in this regard. In a way it is also about what Klein, very much so in passing, calls 'boundary consciousness'; being mindful of boundaries and their ontological transformation. Both a creative reconstruction of the work and a PhD proposal are attached as outputs.

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  Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

  Spring 2026

  Carl Schorske's classic study — coming soon.

Methodologies related to studying will be outlined here.