Scholar, Stained

It is difficult to deny that today we are increasingly driven by interested knowledge; it is the more sensible way to account for why knowledge is pursued and valued.

October 02, 2025

🍎Scholar, Stained
Your Scholarly Digest 2nd October, 2025

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Hi Scholar,

Today we welcomed our 44th member into Scholar Square. Words cannot express the joy with which we tell you that our little community is growing!

The shape of our space has yet to settle. But right now, as we tentatively exchange hello’s and explore The Study, The Parlour and The Square, it is hard to shake the feeling that something exciting is happening there. In Scholar Square we are putting the ethos developed through writing The Scholarly Letter into practice. Scholarship is a community undertaking; scholarship is pursued for beauty and curiosity’s sake, as well as utility; scholarship is an act of patience and care.

Why not come and join us as a Founding Member?

BRAIN FOOD

Dis/Interested Knowledge

In discussions of scholarship and knowledge, especially around the question of why we pursue it, the most honourable and romantic answer tends to be: knowledge for its own sake. This is an argument we ourselves often make in The Scholarly Letter: be it when defending the value of useless knowledge motivated by curiosity, or when sketching out our vision of what successful scholarship might look like.

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