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A Six-Week Close Reading Cohort
6 weeks | Live on Zoom | Once per week | 4–10 people per session | No recordings
Price: $275
CLASS DESCRIPTION
You already know what doomscrolling costs you. The fractured attention. The feeling of having consumed a great deal while digesting almost nothing. The strange exhaustion of spending hours with your eyes on words and coming away emptier than you started.
What's harder to name is what it's taken from you, not just time, but a particular kind of capacity. The ability to stay with something. To let a text work on you slowly, to sit with difficulty, to follow a thought all the way to where it wants to go. To be genuinely changed by an encounter with another mind.
This course is about getting that back.
Death to the Doomscroll is a six-week live cohort built around close reading — one of the oldest and most rigorous practices of sustained attention we have. Not skimming. Not absorbing the main points. Reading the way the text was meant to be read: carefully, slowly, in relationship with it. And then doing something even harder: putting two very different texts in conversation with each other and finding out what they say together that neither one could say alone.
We pair texts that don't obviously belong together — something esoteric or mystical alongside something scientific or literary — because the most interesting thinking happens at the edge of two frameworks that weren't designed to meet. You learn to hold two different ways of knowing at once, to find the thread that runs between them, and to create something new from what you've been in relationship with.
This is not a passive class. There are no recordings. We meet live every week because the kind of reading this course asks for only deepens in community, in the friction of other people's interpretations, in the surprise of someone finding something you missed.
Skeptics welcome. Patience required. Curiosity the only prerequisite.
A Six-Week Close Reading Cohort
6 weeks | Live on Zoom | Once per week | 4–10 people per session | No recordings
Price: $275
CLASS DESCRIPTION
You already know what doomscrolling costs you. The fractured attention. The feeling of having consumed a great deal while digesting almost nothing. The strange exhaustion of spending hours with your eyes on words and coming away emptier than you started.
What's harder to name is what it's taken from you, not just time, but a particular kind of capacity. The ability to stay with something. To let a text work on you slowly, to sit with difficulty, to follow a thought all the way to where it wants to go. To be genuinely changed by an encounter with another mind.
This course is about getting that back.
Death to the Doomscroll is a six-week live cohort built around close reading — one of the oldest and most rigorous practices of sustained attention we have. Not skimming. Not absorbing the main points. Reading the way the text was meant to be read: carefully, slowly, in relationship with it. And then doing something even harder: putting two very different texts in conversation with each other and finding out what they say together that neither one could say alone.
We pair texts that don't obviously belong together — something esoteric or mystical alongside something scientific or literary — because the most interesting thinking happens at the edge of two frameworks that weren't designed to meet. You learn to hold two different ways of knowing at once, to find the thread that runs between them, and to create something new from what you've been in relationship with.
This is not a passive class. There are no recordings. We meet live every week because the kind of reading this course asks for only deepens in community, in the friction of other people's interpretations, in the surprise of someone finding something you missed.
Skeptics welcome. Patience required. Curiosity the only prerequisite.