Interesting, I supposed I can't imagine a topic that isn't related to big frames (we are historical subjects). This might be my projection that I see diet and read material cultures of piety and devotion meets self-fashioning in these political-economic conditions. ...
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(and yes I can be very annoying to watch football with or music videos, or talk about the weather because I am *always* seeing why this is a case of the bigger that.)
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I think that’s a rare attitude though. Most engagement in these things is atemporal. Sports fandom sometimes acquires a bit of a sense of history, but not the studiously analytical kind.
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I bet if people had more words for talking about what they are interested in some really interesting enduring interests would emerge. Some interests have clearer paths to connect dots than others.
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This interest in study as opposed to shallow curiosity or drive-by interest is I think a big part of why cozyweb cultures have emerged and are stealing attention from public social media. The for eg is literally a set of study groups (explicitly labeled as such)
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Group study is a slightly different beast. Study has mostly been a solitary activity for me in the past and in fact a way to seek solitude. It’s been fun learning to engineer group study and keep it deeper than idle forum chitchat.
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I think group study is best done in a peer learning way. Teachers generally hurt, not help. But the idea of a tutor though..l good fit for study. Tutors help you study, teachers do something closer to providing air cover and efficient strategic knowledge bombing.
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Closest I came to “tutor” was advising a bunch of undergrad theses at Cornell as a postdoc. It’s different from grad-level advising and classroom teaching. US grad TA-ing is also not like real tutoring, even though the sessions are called tutorials.
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It’s funny that tutoring, test-prep, and study all have negative valences today due to assimilation into late modern hyper-competitive industrial workforce prep. Historically these patterns seem to have been the core of educational culture itself, not a steroid-like ancillary.
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right? like liberation moves in peer study groups. it's a form of access to knowledge and to planning that is way more accessible than any institution can offer.
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There’s a weird tension here though. You need solitary study time too. Depending on the subject it may be the core. Solitary study is to group study what reverie/reflection is to solitary study. There is a stack of modes here.
We should write up this conversation somehow. Feels like a lot of the meaning crisis/general anomie around is a study-shaped hole in people’s lives.
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It's like being in a band/orchestra. You still have to go home and work on your instrument. You bring that to the group and then you play in an ensemble. The best groups I am in are very interdisciplinary for this reason.
Seems related to this recent study about creative processes performing best when there is both a solitary and collective component: twitter.com/emollick/statu
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