Abstract
Addressing the shortcomings of North America’s prevalent model of higher education, this essay hazards that two late-antique figures may provide avenues for rejuvenating the network of humanities research and pedagogy (critical/liberal/arts) in institutions of higher education (IHEs). Making a foray into examples of alternative IHEs, past and present, I move from Benedict of Nursia’s late-antique labors to more recent para-academic endeavors. Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis is then mined for both a transitional comportment (encyclopedic satire) and two scholarly practices or ‘critical arts’ (periergia and parecbasis) that, though tangential, can be deployed productively in the meantime, as we labor among the ruins. In closing, I draft a preliminary visualization of the actor-networks within and between educational entities.
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