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The Weekly Digest
What we’re reading:
Theodora’s Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Whistler by Ann Patchett
England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society by Onyeka Nubia
Theme of the Week:
Cait: Planning and Patience
Kaelyn: “In the Weeds”
Lesson of the week: the importance of supporting the humanities and the arts
through financial investment, active engagement, and public/private promotion
Key Topics from The Seminar
The Intellectual is someone who represents realities for the public, but does not function as their representative
The Intellectual as “outsider”, exile, and an independent
The binary between the marginalized intellectual and the “sellout”
Professionalism and Amateurism
Collective v. Individual Intellectualism
Links & Mentions
Accepted Society: https://www.acceptedsociety.com/
Ann Patchett’s Ted Talk:
Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual recording: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gxr1s
Connect with Kaelyn and Cait
Kaelyn Apple (kaelyn@acceptedsociety.com) YouTube | Instagram | Substack
Cait Murphy-Hurrell (cait @acceptedsociety.com) YouTube | Instagram | Substack
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