In this article, the practice of study is approached through three different angles: (1) the retreat from an addictive integration in the flows of instantaneous communication ( studium ); (2) the sharing of our incompleteness through egalitarian conversations ( black study ); and (3) the self-alienating elaboration of collective counter-addictive inquiries within academic contexts ( études ). Together, these three gestures offer both a supplement and an alternative to the traditional (education-based) mode of teaching, as well as to the (hard) sciences model of research. To complement the widespread ideals of emancipation through the transmission of knowledge, and of critique through the competition between contradictory arguments, this article invites us to locate the main benefits of studying ( studium / black study / études) in two supplementary processes. The process of counter-addiction is needed in a world where the dynamics of capital destruct our common environments by fostering ecocidal and egocidal addictions. The process of self-alienation welcomes experiences of becoming-other in order to help us distance ourselves from the illusions and traps of sovereign selfhood.