Think Allodidacts

We Are What We Think

Valerie Stunning | Tangle | 9th February 2025

A retired stripper reminisces. First responders make for the best clients, “as no one appreciates a smiling professional party girl more than a person who regularly bears witness to the worst day of peoples’ lives.” Never trust your safety to guards who are usually overworked, under-slept and underpaid. Conduct a TSA-style search on clients — “a fun silly one that didn’t read as a search, but a search nonetheless” (2,500 words)

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Here Come The Allodidacts

William Deresiewicz | Hinternet | 9th February 2025

“We read in, around, about, for, and against, but rarely is the preposition or the pretence dropped, the book actually read.” Can a new humanities emerge out of alternative institutions where people engage in reading that is “utterly non-instrumental” — “no papers, no grades, none of the habits that come with them”? “It would be just us and the book and what we could make of it” (7,200 words)

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