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Mar 30, 2025
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how do you learn without a school system? Being real too, without a syllabus or a lecturer directing my learning, i find it impossible to just learn something. Teach me!
@CLEANTEETH ok im the worst person to ask this advice cause im currently still in academia, BUT! I continue my learning in the summer when Iām off and donāt have the structure and hereās how:
1. Figure out what you really wanna learn about! Are you interested in science? math? activism? politics? Iām super into postcolonial and subaltern studies, and the general histories of marginalized peoples (through intersections of gender, class, race, sexuality and more!) - honestly however, which ever subject you enjoy Iād always suggest taking a critical approach to it too, question things that seem like theyāre āneutral,ā thereās a book called āLaboratory Lifeā that speaks about how quantifiable data often creates the reality it seeks to describe, itās super interesting! (Also Foucaulās writing on Epistemology and the book āThe Structure of Scientific Revolutionsā by Thomas Kuhn is very interesting)
2. look for video essays or prominent scholars about the topic youre interested in. For example, last summer I got really into philosophy and just started watching videos about topics I knew nothing about like Absurdism, Nihilism etc. Watching the video essays introduced me to prominent authors in the topic such as Kafka, or Camus. I ended up reading many books on the topics too and by extension, I started falling deeper into the world of it and reading papers/books by authors Id never heard of
3. This might sound counterintuitive, but spend some time on social media scrolling through the thing you want to learn. in terms of postcolonial studies, Iāve found many scholars and their works just by consuming that content on social media often. and when those scholars refer to other scholars, I end up reading up on them too. Itās like falling down a wormhole of people just constantly referring to other works.
I know this probably is not the best help but itās all I have šŖ¦.Iām sure someone would be able to give you better advice!
Mar 30, 2025
