COSMIC EDGES
ROGUE PHILOSOPHY & POETICS
RECORDINGS OF PAST CLASSES
I’m a writer and astrologer with over a decade of experience practicing and teaching courses on poetry, literature, ancient and modern astrology, philosophy, cinema, and visual art. I aim to teach workshops that are generative and interdisciplinary, with a focus on figures and works which are ambiguous or controversial, and to create a loose, fun, and rigorous environment where students can think for themselves, take risks, and find pockets of silence away from the maddening crowd. Classes are for current students, dropouts, seekers, skeptics, and edge-dwellers. All sales are final. For information on sliding scale prices or payment plans, or any other questions—-please email me at emmalearusso@gmail.com.
2024 CALENDAR
VOID OF COURSES: THE SIGNS
August 2023-July 2024
ALCHEMY OF THE WORD
January 6-27, 2024
BOOK SHERPA ACCELERATOR: A WRITING INTENSIVE
February 26-April 20, 2024
COSMIC RIGOR: ART, POETRY, AND ASTROLOGY
July 9-30, 2024
[VIA Morbid Anatomy]
CELESTIAL EDITOR
AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE: A SIMONE WEIL WORKSHOP
November 30, 2024-January 18, 2025
SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE:
A SIMONE WEIL WORKSHOP
“To accept the void in oneself is supernatural,” wrote Simone Weil, a 20th-century mystic, philosopher, and activist. In this class, which serves as both an introduction to Simone Weil and a deep dive into her life and work, we’ll discuss her ideas about attention, truth, revolution, justice, God, and thought itself. Each session will be dedicated to a particular aspect of Weil’s thought. The first half of each class will be lecture/slide show format and in the second half, we’ll read excerpts from her major works together and have discussions, time for Q+A. We’ll discuss the ways we might be able to apply Simone Weil’s attentive, rigorous, and heterodox thought to our own information-saturated age. We’ll think alongside of her, and hopefully become better thinkers ourselves. Though there will be recommended readings for each week, no preparation is required. The audio from each session will be recorded and all participants will receive slides and recordings after class.
SATURDAYS NOVEMBER 30, 2024 through JANUARY 18, 2025
3PM ET / 12PM PT
WEEK 1: GRAVITY AND GRACE: INTRODUCTION
WEEK 2: ATTENTION, PRAYER, LOVE
WEEK 3: THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE VOID
WEEK 4: ETHICS AND READING
WEEK 5: TRUTH, BEAUTY, JUSTICE
WEEK 6: ROOTS AND NEEDS OF THE HUMAN SOUL
WEEK 7: THE SELF, THE HUMAN, AND DECREATION
WEEK 8: THINKING
DOORS CLOSE: NOVEMBER 25
PAST CLASSES AND EVENTS
2023
Metaphysical Poetry at Melbourne School of Literature
April is the Cruelest Month: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land*
Void of Courses: The Signs*
Party Horror Cinema at Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
A Short Talk on Purgatory at Poetic Research Bureau
2022
Void of Courses: Moving Images*
Georges Bataille: Religion Without Religion at the Global College for Advanced Studies
Philosophy and Love at Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
Philosophical Theology at the Global College for Advanced Studies
Medium and Messenger: Angels, Media, and Technology*
Mysticism*
2021
Terrible Angels: Poetics of the Impossible*
Desiring Zones: Eros, Excess, Environments at The Home School
Digital Ether and Material Memory*
Saturn and Jupiter: Poetics of Expansion and Contraction*
2020 and 2010s
Of Being Numerous: Reading and Writing Through George Oppen at Northeastern University
Prayers and Stares: Silence in Art and Writing at The Home School
Moon Writing: A Workshop on Marguerite Duras*
Cosmic Edges: Hidden Spaces in Astrology*
Sun, Moon, Mercury: An Alchemy Workshop*
Venus Daze: A Venus Retrograde Workshop*
Various Reading and Writing Classes at Saint Peters University
*taught independently