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- Author: Mariam Mahmoud
- Full Title:: The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Refusing To Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants,
- URL:: https://kasurian.com/p/research-as-leisure
- Read date:: 2025-03-23
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reading and writing assemble and shape culture. And without culture, there is no civilisation. (View Highlight)
“every good idea ever achieved is the product of both connection and contemplation, of moving back and forth between the two.” (View Highlight)
For nearly 100 years — each year, the future arriving faster than we have been able to process it — we have worried about the future of reading. Yet, none of these writers, nor Harold Bloom in How to Read and Why, nor Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren in How to Read a Book, nor Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, predicted the future that arrived: an uncanny valley, neither in “orality” nor “literacy”—surrounded by more books, more words, more reading and writing than perhaps at any time in history, yet lacking a coherent culture. (View Highlight)
How might we rebuild the foundations of culture when our very modes of attention have been compromised? (View Highlight)
Such leisure is not merely, or singularly, the pursuit of knowledge “for its own sake,” nor is it simply “reading for pleasure.” The leisure that forms the basis of culture is a directed and intentional curiosity — it is the practice of formulating questions and seeking answers with a disposition towards wonder (View Highlight)