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Orange Tangent Study


A boutique consultant service created by

learner

Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Sometimes, we must go on a tangent to get to where we need to go.

Orange Tangent Study is a

study1

partner that supports tentacular, transdisciplinary, and agile approaches to developing your projects. Basically, we are playing together, looking together, and wandering together.

A

tangent2

can be a generative digression 

that invites 

learning3

or an

abrupt change in course4

that introduces you to new ideas. Tangents are not 

mistakes5

; rather, they are offerings.


We enjoy working with individuals and teams interested in designing generative experiences across all environments (a classroom, your living room, a church, a museum, a book/the page, etc.). 


Orange Tangent Study does not have clients; we have co-learners or study buddies. Come learn and study with us!

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Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. Essay. In The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, 110. Wivenhoe: Minor Compositions, 2013.


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Moving beyond learning as something to be completed and something only possible within “classrooms,” I mean learning as a process of radical slowing down/deceleration in the context of almost compulsory acceleration under the current conditions; an attentiveness to a velocity that allows for a patient and nuanced reading; an engagement with curiosity, serendipity, improvisation, and tangents. Learning is a persistent reminder of the shifting ecologies of what it means to know something.


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Butler, Octavia, and Samuel Delany. “Octavia Butler Samuel Delany.” Science Fiction-Media in Transition, August 29, 1998. 
http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/science_fiction/transcripts/
butler_delany_index.html



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Giovanni, Nikki. “Ego-Tripping (there may be a reason why).” in My house; poems. New York: HarperCollins, 1972.
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