summer 2025

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See the site home page for the current update.

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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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spring 2025

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“Prospecting generative consilience” is proximally an interplay of outerworldly and innerworldly appeals.

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April 30 | Being meta-semiotic: “molecular texting.”

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April 29 | So much can be said about thinking relative to a lived continuum of value domains. “Gardening better humanity” links to a letter emailed yesterday to an esteemed professor of political theory, then I added some comment. .

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after the onto-theo-logical constitution of the Holocaust

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The early 20th century mandarins of German academia unwittingly rational-
ized Catholic capitalism: the “onto-“ of pretentious German power.

Holy Roman Catholicism unwittingly rationalized antisemitism: the “-theo-.“
of scapegoating.

Catholic capitalism enabled Hitlerism which thereby afforded engineering of the Holocaust: the “-logical” scaling of psychotic murder.

The native culpability of Germans—portended in the dynamic of “refusal” which Heidegger framed in Contributions to Philosophy (c1938) and his framing of German ideology in his notebooks—was so horrifying to Germans after the war that decades would pass before their innocent children would grow up to demand that their parents’ generation face accountability, which appeared academically as the Historikerstreit.

winter 2025

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Working with hundreds of pages of offline notes can become vertiginous.

Anyway, the past month’s discussions relative to Heidegger are a departure from giving any more attention to his presence for awhile. But up the road, there will be intensive work relative to lots to do and share online meanwhile.

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Feb. 7 | “Cartesian vs. hermeneutical sensibility” addresses interest in why scholars continue to invalidly associate Heidegger with sympathy for nazism, but I don’t get into detail about surviving those times. “Becoming post-Heideggerian” overviews what I’m generally doing with Heidegger’s thinking.
I want to leave Heideggerian interests behind, much as I’m thankful for the influence. Though I would enjoy sharing a close reading of any of “his” texts-in-English, I have more than enough attraction to other engagements.

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autumn 2024

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There’s no admirable point to political anger unless it leads to actionable valuation… ”Reality unchosen, reality to prospect” is an outer worldly sidetrack from a project for Dec. 18 which is inner worldly, but highlights inner/outer liminality.

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Dec. 6 | “Easily casual, easily alien” is the first part of a five-part set oriented by the notion of belonging: being chosen to belong in relation with choosing to belong.

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summer 2024

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I expect upcoming discussions to no longer focus on the presidential campaign (which seems fated to elect Harris). I’ll get back to engagement with practical conceptual interests.

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Sept. 11 | “For the best of America” weaves phrases from the leading speeches
of the Democratic National Convention into topics of my own. Also, the “campaign 2024” page is no longer in chronological order. The top four discussions are primary for me; the other six are supplementary now.

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Ours

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Writing for the Brookings Institute, Linda Schacht usefully highlighted
how the Democratic National Convention, 2024, showed that “a 21st century rhetoric can still inspire in a digital-visual world.” But her short discussion didn’t seek to get into the heart of Democratic mindfulness—the sense of American humanity—that was expressed across leading voices.

Those voices evinced intuitions of the best in us which ensures and advances the ever-incomplete “more perfect union” of American diversity (Our republican democracy which is Our democratic republic). Though the “spiritual” source of those kindred intuitions had no common leading constellation of values explicitly—and no explicit conception of cohering personal, interpersonal, cultural, social, and political relevance—the spirit of dearly held values belonging together was clear—and joyous.