Seminar Schools Sitemap
A tree of the practice

Sitemap.

Every page on the site, grouped by what it does. The practice has six branches. Each branch is a place to read or attend or contribute.

Home

The threshold · root
  • Seminar Schools / The landing page. Lists current projects, recent thinking, ways to enter.

The practice

Gatherings, installations, working notes
  • bookwormburrows landing /bb/ In development The two-card entry point for students (make a wormcard) and teachers (read the operation file).
  • Calendar /calendar/ Live Interactive month-grid calendar of seminars and festivals across the GO Transit network. Filter by category, pick events, export to iCal or PDF.
  • Seminars /seminars/ Live Lectures, panels, screenings with director Q&A, philosophy cafes, scholar talks. Tested against the four-condition seminar form.
  • Festivals /festivals/ Live Festivals across Toronto and the GO Transit network. Three polymyth-broadened types: festival-of-form, cultural-reproduction, site-specific-art.
  • The Agora /agora/ In development A monthly outdoor philosophy gathering at Earl Bales Park. Read the text. Show up. Sit. Speak when you have something to say.
  • Sabachtan Seminar /sabachtan-seminar/ In development A reading-and-discussion seminar on the cry from the cross and the gnostic tradition.
  • Ohm Dome /ohm-dome/ In development A geodesic public art installation that responds to the heart rates and breathing of the people inside it.
  • Marginalia /marginalia/ In development Long-form written attention to free public lectures attended around Toronto.
    • Example review /marginalia/example-review/ A stub. The first real review will replace it.
  • Nutrition /nutrition/ In development Notes on food, substrate, sovereignty. The bread-and-circus tradition extended.
  • Campaigns /campaigns/ In development Bookwormburrows campaigns. Each campaign is a dimensionally-rendered reading of a specific text or text-set.
    • Thank You M'am /campaigns/thank-you-mam/ A pedagogical RPG campaign set in Harlem on September 20-22, 1958, built around Langston Hughes's short story. Forty-eight hours around a single canonical encounter, with the MLK stabbing at Blumstein's alive across the same window.
      • Pregame Arena /campaigns/thank-you-mam/pregame/ DM-facing session-zero runbook. Pre-session checklist, opening script, dimension introduction, burrow-point protocol, first scene, Mrs Jones NPC quick-card.

Resources & reading

Catalogs, the blog, the academy
  • Teacher Resources /teacherresources/ Live A curated catalog of free teaching materials. 554 entries across 50 collections, K-12 plus IB plus AP across eleven subjects.
  • The Florilegium /florilegium/ Live The aggregated reading feed across the practice. Every section's articles flower here. The florilegium of the Seminar Schools writing.
  • Leizu Academy /leizu/ Live Solo tutoring practice. Five subjects as peer pillars following the five-elements productive cycle.
    • Teach at Leizu /leizu/teach/ For teachers who want a seminar to teach in. Eighty percent of session rate, small student loads, the seminar method.
    • Scholarship /leizu/scholarship/ Application page for need-based scholarship.
    • The Mulberry Fund /leizu/donate/ The Mulberry Fund supports Leizu Scholars: tuition-free education for students who can't afford regular fees.
    • Curriculum cloud /leizu/cloud/ Leizu Academy curriculum in cloud-growth mode. Five subjects of the productive cycle expand into courses, routes, and cross-subject thematic threads.
    • Policies /leizu/policies/ Cancellations, rescheduling, no-shows, seminar gating.
    • Booking confirmation /leizu/booking-success/ Utility Post-payment landing page. Forwards to scheduling once payment is confirmed.

The framework

Polymyth working files
  • Methodology List /polymyth/methodologylist/ Framework The methodology corpus — ml*. Methodology entries, gorgonification scanner, degorgonification strategies, sabachtan procedure, idiomary, citations.
  • Module Canon /polymyth/modulecanon/ Framework Teaching modules — mc*. OSSD course codes, Leizu view, curriculum maps.
  • bookwormburrows /polymyth/bookwormburrows/ Framework The pedagogical dimensional-traveling game — bb*. Rainbowsol is singular DM and founder.
  • Campaign Codex /polymyth/campaigncodex/ Framework The campaign canon — cc*. D&D-style OSSD English campaigns from ENG2D through ENG4U.
  • Polymythdnd compatibility landscape /polymyth/polymythdnd/ Framework 33 D&D and OSR mechanics from 10 systems, ranked by polymyth-compatibility, mapped to four table functions. A reference for any DM building a richer, agency-respecting game.

Instruments

Specialized tools and tools-in-development
  • Bookwormcard /bookwormcard/ In development The matrix-terminal character creator for bookwormburrows. Players answer questions and receive a printable wormcard.
    • About /bookwormcard/about/ Project overview and rules.
    • PDF download /bookwormcard/pdf/ Print-ready bookwormcard PDF for the analog companion.
    • In-browser print /bookwormcard/print/ The Bookwormcard rendered for in-browser printing. A character punch card for bookwormburrows. Fill it as you read; scan it back into the matrix when full.
    • Glossary /bookwormcard/glossary/ The vocabulary of the bookwormburrows depth-engine.
    • Transmission complete /bookwormcard/success/ Utility Confirmation page after a wormcard submission is received.
  • aa /aa/ In development The archive tool. A working space for citation-bearing exploration.
    • aa cloud /aa/cloud/ The cloud index of the archive.
    • aa views /aa/views/ Five lenses over the archetype catalog: originator index, timeline, cross-tradition heatmap, co-occurrence weighting, tradition-pair affinity matrix.
    • Editorial Log /aa/editorial.html Editorial decisions log for the aa* archetype archive. Schema versions, routing decisions, refusals.

About & site

The author and the map
  • Saul Nassau /saul/ The founder. Philosopher, educator, builder of the practice.
  • Sitemap (tree) /polymyth/sitemap/ This page. Hierarchical tree of every page across the practice.
  • Sitemap (graph) /polymyth/sitemap/graph/ Interactive force-directed graph showing every cross-page link between pages. Same coverage as the tree, different lens.
  • Sitemap (XML) /sitemap.xml Machine-readable sitemap for search engines and crawlers.
  • Not found /404.html The page that appears when something has been moved or never existed.
  • Application received /apply/success/ Utility Confirmation page after a Leizu Academy application form submission.