This is intended to be a serious record of economic and technical practices that individuals can use to promote free scholarship and critical inquiry in their present or future communities.
It is hoped that first-time contributors will propose their own detailed, pragmatic models for an actual community designed to promote these activities, addressing, if appropriate:
- location, facilities
- duration; seasonality
- routine
- scale, scope
- relation to technologies
- funding
- membership
- legal structure
- comparison with existing institutions
Non-novel debate concerning the basic merits of the secular monastery project is somewhat discouraged: The opposition already amply pervades ordinary life, while general support of the concept is assumed and therefore not considered a valuable contribution.
Debate on the merits of specific proposals is strongly encouraged!
To post here:
- Make a GitHub account.
- Tell the site administrator your username.
- Clone the organization repository to your GitHub account, or to your own computer using
git. - Write your article in plain text or markdown and save it to the
_postsfolder of the clone. Copy the date-title name format.