1. Introduction: Inhabiting the ruins of excellence -- 2. The university in the middle ages: on the invention of a new use of reason -- 3. How to learn something new? The place of scientific practices at the university -- 4. Beyond victimization and normalization: on questioning situations and studiers' obligations -- 5. Beyond response-able: inquiring into the requirements of a practice of study -- 6. The studiers' constraint: Whiteheadian adventures and matters of study -- 7. Making other futures possible: towards a pedagogy of study practices.