Friday, May 23, 2025
prospecting generative consilience
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.
Appeals of a life’s futurity, at best, cohere with caring about and for future humanity, personal and public, specific and general.
Appealing to general interests, at best, coheres with caring about and for singular potentials of others’ given and future lives.
What molecular gardening, what texting humanity, best coheres it all?
How best goes a generative conception of us all belonging together in the same futural humanity, the same differential consilience, fruitfully?
