Spring MMXXVI · the curriculum
Twelve courses, taught slowly. Each is a small place to be a reader for a while.
Mathematics
Twelve lessons in how vectors, transformations, and bases let us argue about space.
Literature
What if you read a novel the way you walk into a room — for the light, the silences, the chairs?
Science
Doors that swing wrong, kettles that whistle, spoons that bend in tea — eight lessons in noticing.
“History is not a chronicle of events. It is a record of what people noticed, and what they preferred to forget.”
Philosophy
What we look at, and what we do about it. A short course on the moral weight of noticing.
Design
How a paragraph argues with itself — and how to set type that knows what it wants.
Vectors, matrices, transformations — the alphabet before the literature.
How writers train themselves — and you — to look at a thing twice.
An introduction to the long, patient lives of plants.