in medias res

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Latin: in the midst of things.

May we make the best of our times lastingly as events go by
in days becoming years.

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journaling: ephemerality certified

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Awake. Still alive. Thank goodness.

“Thank goodness,” they say.

“They.”

You, we, begin again because that’s what one does.

“Goodness”! You know what I think about “the” good generally,
which could be furthered at whatever degree of value interests you.

Degree, height, depth, extent.

I write to myself, I write myself.

spring 2025

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summer, whatever…I’m easily distracted from my path (building after the blueprint, protocols) by appeals of newly anticipated prospects
for conceptual cohering. A radiant horizon isn’t good for staying in one locale, you know—though I’ve lived in Berkeley over 45 years.

Getting sidetracked by fascinations may not be optimal for reaching
a given goal, but the eventual reach may be better for it.

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June 17

I’ve begun implementing my long-developed path, completed a week ago (after more than a year of themic design).

But I need a few more days for having a substantial beginning to share online.

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prospecting generative consilience

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On the one hand, I want to give in to creative writing, my specific humanity (so to speak): novel “molecular texting.”  

On the other hand, I want writing to be relative to vital contemporary issues, our general humanity (so to speak): novel “gardening better humanity”.   

Yet, writing to public issues is an externalist kind of molecular texting. Writing with personal license is an internalist kind of bettering humanity (my own, though).

Be it creative play or appealing to general urgency, expressing specific or addressing general humanity, appealing futures draw both.   

molecular texting

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I’m so many textual elements for constellating.

What compounds can I craft?  

But whether or not a presence is “Art” isn’t for me to judge.  

I want to make the best of cohering.  

A singularity of sensibility exemplifies itself best by not posturing
as exemplary.  

 So goes fidelity to ownmost going on.  

Yet, I do enjoy the idea of being influential. But I have no interest in being an “Influencer,” just being compounds I can craft, what free standing combine I’m to display.

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gardening better humanity

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So much can be said about thinking relative to a lived continuum of value domains. Here’s a letter emailed yesterday to an esteemed professor of political theory, then some added comment.

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post card from a high resort

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We’re artful beings
multimodal
of promising potentials
in love of solitude
being well
valuing conceptuality
cultivating humanity
advancing community
 

the lover

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As if we may be born again.

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Heidegger was not a "mystical" philosopher

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Common practice by Heidegger scholars mystifies what he was doing. But his calling is kindred with asking: What is the meaning (the significance, the meaningfulness) of being alive? That can be quite a mystery. But it’s resolvable, person by person, without supernaturalism.

Of course, questions of meaningfulness can scale to any horizon of interest, though beginning immanently was Heidegger's idea.

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after Arrival

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After enlightenment which feels awesome, teaching faces audiences (students, readers, collleagues) who might care little about the enthusiasm. But if you happen to want to venture highly, what’s it like to be on a good path? This short discussion isn’t the answer. But the bridgework for teaching is interesting to entertain.

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for philosophically countering Bozo politics

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Seventy years after Heidegger pursued his post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima “question concerning technology,” the U.S. now has a Bozo administration welcoming intimations of techn-fascism.

I have the answer!—at X (screen shot there). I would argue that the humanities (U. of Penn. project) make genuine democracy possible, though I see conceptual modeling differently than the U. of Penn. project.

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“’Morality is for suckers,’ Trump might say.”

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My extended cynicism against Bozo turns into bibliophilic hope for “moral” philosophy in conceptions of educational excellence—though being “moral,” to me, is just ethical pragmatism treated as statutory normativity.

My discussion leads into a sequenced sense of moral conceptuality which can credibly ground a post-naturalistic sense of evolutionary ethics.

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winter 2025

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I’m working steadily, but openness to emergent themes goes where it appeals. I may have more to share next week or not. I hope to get closure on new developmental work this weekend.

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Feb. 28

I see a way station ahead, nearing more easily each day. I’ll write you from there.

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Heidegger receding into the distance

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Giving attention to Heideggerian themes feels regressive for me these days, but Heideggerians turn up in my online life: A Facebook group of serious students and scholars of Heidegger was pushed my way by Facebook; a new academic encyclopedia page on Heidegger irks me.

But also, I’ve wanted to provide an overview of what I’m doing altogether relative to long Heideggerian influence (like being more attracted to doing autobiography as one ages).

for intimacy of time being

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Heidegger’s sense of there being phenomenal implicature here (or any text) and there (any reader) sought to engage “us” in a venture of originary promise in thinking together (there linking at the end to here).

My discussion there highlights a concept of “It” which isn’t addressed. So, in light or that, you might wonder what “is” “It”?  

open interality in released Flow of immersion

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This recalls last year’s pages on interality (inter-ness, e.g., re: interplay, interaction, etc.) in a narrative of their links, free associating with the conception, which will sprout more topics soon. It’s about being immersive relating.

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Heidegger and “technology”

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reflections relative to the publisher’s description for an upcoming book on Heidegger and 21st century scientific industries.

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on a way to original thinking

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This shares my sense of Heidegger’s pragmatic originality. It begins
a little provocatively, then sketches a simple view which may seem superficial, but becomes conceptually holistic in an historical sense.

Inasmuch as he's my philosophical father, this discussion is why
I outgrew a loved home and departed for new ways.

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here

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Immersion in music playing itself, you lost in a film showing itself, wholly dancing oneself, we play playing flow flowing reverie horizoning—joy!

“Beyond words.”

So: inwordness tropes.

Yet, we’re also a window in saying how awing flight of time’s appellant cohering—release into “regioning of that which regions” (Heidegger), like the cosmos self-constellating—gives way, drawing oneSelf away into being time, freely awing, things thinging, points pointing like votexual distance emerging into nearing you, coming to you as you’re going there.

It’s a mirrorplay: bearing emerges from granting, yet given appealing enacts one’s granting.