This short essay, co-authored with L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, in the edited 2-volume collection BURN AFTER READING, eds. Eileen A. Joy, Myra Seaman, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Oliphaunt Books, 2014), ruminates the importance of the humanities as an important space for the artfulness of living, for enriched environments, and real-time experimental ecologies that donate valuable resources, not just for surviving, but thriving. The essay also urges a move, for the university, to the para-academic Outside, where it might help spawn a vibrant network of Outstitutions and a materialist Epicureanism for new and sustaining historical trajectories.