spring 2026

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I regret that I haven’t come to a point of putting more discussion online recently, but the work is progressing well—though more entangling than I anticipated.

Also, I’m putting lots of time into campaigning online for Xavier Becerra, which is very informative about people’s rationales for beliefs.

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April 17

I’m pathing toward a conception of comparative thought, concepts, conceiving, and conceptuality which may be better than how those
are standardly understood, especially relative to my ambitious sense
of evolving conceptuality, which is implicitly backgrounded by
the genealogical entirety of both websites.

I’m clear about where I am, but I don’t yet have a brief version to share online. I expect to have that soon.

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endearing fabulations

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Heightening a conception of “Literary” living seems at best these days to dissolve into prospecting nomparative thought calling from appellant horizons.

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light houses

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“What, after all, is the function of great literature if not to enhance
the human endeavor and raise its potential beyond what is otherwise conceivable?  As Toni Morrison said in her acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet, literary artists mine the resources of language
to produce ‘illuminations none of us has dreamed of’.”

from Literary Studies and Human Flourishing, “Introduction,” p. 1 

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i am text you bring to life

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I doubt you care much that “Literature” may be better understood as glyphical narrative appealing for invocation yet.

No worries, just cohering.

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winter 2026

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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.”

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creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism

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prospecting more about literary creativity.

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more away into high textual craft

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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.

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a way into literary venturing

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

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authorship of authoriality

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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.

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary

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Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.

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intelligent design

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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.

resorts of higher souls

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

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gardening aspiration

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

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