hey,

my name’s khensani and partial arts is my blog.

You see, what the system does is that it tells us to do certain things in a systematic way where the results are… systematic.

The seven liberal arts were built to produce a certain kind of person who does things in a certain kind of way. We are not those people. Partial Arts takes grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, the curriculum of the free man, in the oldest and most exclusionary sense of “free” and fractures it.

Written from Johannesburg where the canon arrived late, armed, and uninvited, read anywhere, this is criticism that takes the classical curriculum seriously enough to argue with it. Every essay assumes the classical trivium and quadrivium are worth taking seriously and worth taking apart