Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Friday, March 20, 2026

winter 2026



I have updates on literary-conceptual work, but I want a couple of days to add at the same time more than I have today. Coming.

The death of Jürgen Habermas last weekend caused me to do some updating of my Facebook/Habermas page. Also, I spent too much time defending Habermas at a couple of Heidegger discussion pages, which seems to have been a waste of time. One venture became a blog posting: “response to ambivalent praise for Habermas.”


Friday, February 20, 2026

Friday, February 13, 2026

more away into high textual craft



Three more sections of a manifold exploration of “literary” dramactionality today: “being literary,” “the humanistic origin of literary texting,” and “the usual ‘“Literature’.”

My venturing will have many sections, later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.


Friday, January 30, 2026

a way into literary venturing



As if implicit dramaticness of daily life is as textual as real interaction can be like reading each other’s situational authorships.


Saturday, January 17, 2026

authorship of authoriality



Self-differentiation through writing as speech;

self-withholding in writing for an audience through an appropriate degree of candor, etc.;

receptiveness as “reading” another person;

writing the author of a silent text: Is it perceiving, creating, projecting?

Is the inferred author (the authorship) some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—

All of that is happening in non-“literary” life.

Monday, January 12, 2026

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary



Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.


Tuesday, January 06, 2026

intelligent design



Rationality should be understood relative to life-orienting Purposes
of flourishing, rather than relative to near-term goals which are means for bettering the quality of one’s life.

Saturday, January 03, 2026

resorts of higher souls



I suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny.


Friday, January 02, 2026

gardening aspiration



Of philological gardening” recalls themes from autumn postings
(after a hermetic preface) as practical rationale for aspirational venturing through winter’s want of spring.