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Can disagreement be made productive at scale?
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Philosophy · Psychology · Human Behavior
Philosophy & Human Nature
Ancient questions, read slowly, argued carefully.
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We read primary texts together, one section a week, and we do not permit summaries to stand in for reading. Positions are expected to change; announcing that yours has is the highest-status act here.
House rules, host and flagged threads →Reading sprints
Seven days, one text, one cohort
A daily prompt, a check-in and shared margin notes.
No sprint running. Start one and the circle reads together for a week.
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Does a digital public square require a shared history?
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Science889 following
Is there knowledge science cannot, in principle, reach?
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Is attention the true scarce resource of our century?
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Reading list
Book
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 1958
Distinguishes labour, work and action, and defends the public realm as the space where human plurality becomes visible.
Book
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Two systems of thought — fast, intuitive judgement and slow, deliberate reasoning — and the predictable errors of the first.
Podcast / Lecture
Arendt on Plurality — recorded lecture
Noémie Simard · 2025
Fifty minutes on why disagreement is not a failure of the public realm but its precondition.
Live sessions
Reading Group
26 Sept 2026
19:30 CET · 90 min
Reading group: The Human Condition, §24–27
Close reading of the sections on action and plurality. Bring the text; we read aloud.
NSNoémie Simard188 attending
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Motions before this circle
No motion on the floor. Open one and the circle argues it in four rounds.
Members
NSNoémie SimardPhilosopher of mind
RGRosalind GrantScience writer
MHMiriam HaasHistorian of technology
OBOuattara BamadouFounder, Agora Sapiens
KTKenji TokoroBehavioral researcher
Salon schedule
What recurs here
Weekly audio salons, reading cohorts and journal clubs that give the circle its rhythm.
No standing salon yet. A circle becomes a salon when it keeps an hour every week.
Collaborative anthology
The shelf this circle argues from
Members recommend foundational texts, vote them up the canon, and pin the passages that matter.
The shelf is empty. Recommend the first foundational text.
Research & working groups
Cohorts on a single question
Small groups inside the circle that take one inquiry seriously enough to keep notes.
No working group yet. Convene one around a question worth months.