Tuesday, August 15, 2023
path marking
• Cycle 1: 2009—2011
• Cycle 2: 2016—mid-2017
• Cycle 3: 2018 and merging Cycles 1 and 2
• Cycle 4: 2019—2022
• Cycle 5: 2023—
updated November 4, 2024
I began Internet writing near the beginning of its general public availability as the Web, firstly (and heavily) in academic email discussions of Jürgen Habermas’s work (a specialty I evolved during earlier decades), while I learned basic (very basic) Web page formatting and did lots of blogging....
That eventually caused a division of online writing interest which was Habermasian, but also creatively prospective (blogging and Cycle 1 above).
I owned two urls and didn’t link anything from gedavis.com (the Habermasian site, whose early years are logged at “discursive living” and “Our evolving”) with creative prospecting via cohering.net (and “other blogs,“ sidebar at the right here.).
Both Web sites—c.net and g.com— evolved separately. But in recent years, I’ve increasingly linked discussions between sites, and now I post a g.com page (or related blog posting) if the topic feels more externally worldly (or very publicly oriented); and a c.net page (or related blog posting) if the topic feels personal. But that distinction is very provisional. More importantly, I understanding person-al being as a continuum: psychal, [inter]personal, cultural, conceptual, social, and democratically political. (In my notes, I abbreviate that as the PpcCsd continuum.)
Way back, Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 of the Project were unconnected to g.com work of that period. Cycle 3 merged discussions of both sites in a table of contents which paralleled the top-level organization of Cycle 4.
As of today, Cycle 5 has barely begun, but it’s the first stage of development which is gradually representing an offline Project plan which developed in detail over recent years, but as very compressed notes (organized at 2-to-6 table-of-contents levels) which would be—will be—elaborated into shareable discussions. The eventual Project table of contents will have 3-to-5 (?) levels of topics and sub-topics.
Meanwhile, I have no idea what improvisations I’ll want to do, but my evolved plan seems to cover every mode of interest I’ve had over the past few years (including exotic and confessional interests [but not including a confessional blog which is only accessible if you have the url from me via email).
So, I expect that whatever I feel like doing will find a home in one of my blogs, or be a topic for Cycle 5 of “the Project currently”; or be a g.com topic area or posting for a directly-related blog.
Whatever I post, it’s always listed here at “life world” when it’s posted, also sometimes at the cohering.net home page, for major discussions, but always here. Major discussions for gedavis.com are listed at the “new in sites” space at the top of that site’s home page and at X/twitter (which I don’t use for any purpose other than archival notices of additions to gedavis.com). And new listings there eventually become part of the seasona1 “site update” posting at the “discursive living” blog, and also listed here at “life world.”
I imagine that all seems convoluted and confusing. But “life world” updates track it all, and this explanatory posting is cited on every c.net “cycle” home page, all of which link to the cohering.net site home page. gedavis.com has a structure whose Areas all link to that site’s home page.
By the way, I don’t have an accurate sense of how many pages I have online, but if you considered a “page” to be a normal MSWord document of text (~800 words?), then I currently have over 3,000 pages online.
