Sessions
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each session, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Seminar: Naming Your Own Involution
The opening session — find one place in your own life where effort has been rising while the result hasn't, and bring it
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Crit: First Review
The second session — the instance you named in week 1 meets a skeptical room for the first time
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Crit: Spot the Involution
Bring one system you're part of and argue, to a skeptical room, whether it's involuted or just competitive
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Crit: Your Resume, Annotated
Bring a resume — yours, a friend's, or a fictional one — and annotate every line that exists to compete rather than to inform
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Seminar: Confess Your Overtime
A closed-room session benchmarking self-reported hours against verifiable output — separating activity from impact
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Crit: Auto-Ethnographies
Assignment 1 is due this week — a short session to present the instance you've been tracking since week 1, before it's marked
Week 6 · 12 April 2027
Crit: Engagement Farming
Take one account, feed, or creator and run a growth-loop audit to diagnose whether their posting behaviour is involuted, and by whose metric
Week 7 · 19 April 2027
Crit: Grade Your Own Syllabus
A continuous-improvement review of the course's own KPIs — does this syllabus show evidence of impact commensurate with its workload, or merely evidence of activity?
Week 8 · 26 April 2027
Crit: Lying Flat, Discussed
Three ways of opting out, weighed against what each one actually costs
Week 9 · 3 May 2027
Crit: Three Case Studies
Compare involution across three unrelated domains and test, carefully, whether they share one mechanism or only a resemblance
Week 10 · 10 May 2027
Studio: Design an Intervention
Workshop a real or speculative fix to one zero-sum system from the semester, ahead of committing to it for the final project
Week 11 · 17 May 2027
Final Crit
Present your intervention to the room and face the same test the course opened with
Week 12 · 24 May 2027