Saturday, March 7, 2026
winter 2026
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“Beyond “God”: danger of authentic life” responds to a scholastic dispute
at an online discussion group. It may be useful for anyone who believes that Heidegger is anti-theological. He’s anti-dogmatism. It’s a distraction from working to derive a better sense of literary-conceptual work, which will continue from my February discussions soon.
Feb. 20 | “creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism” prospects more interest in literary creativity.
Feb. 13 | Three more sections of a manifold exploration of “literary” dramactionality today: “being literary,“ “the humanistic origin of literary texting,“ and “the usual ‘Literature’.“ The project will have many sections,
later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.
Jan. 30 | The two discussions today—“a dramactional condition” and “writing the read authorship“—follow related discussions from Dec. 31 and early January which anticipate a path into literary venturing.
Jan. 23 | Authoriality of ordinary days doesn’t grant immunity from short illness, but it’s good for soon being “on the mend,” a doctor says to me.
So, I’m “on the road again” (Willie Nelson) of literary venturing—more post cards home, coming soon.
Jan. 17 | What’s upcoming will be despite mainstream views that literary interest is useless for economic times.
Authorship of authoriality (self-differentiation through writing in 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 perceptive, creative, projective? Is it some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—all of this is happening in non-“literary” life. Literary sensibility can be like the silence of a psychoanalyst who is yet unknown to be an analyst (which easily causes another person to clam up, as if the analyst doesn’t have an ordinary life); or a priest yet unknown to be that; or a professor who doesn’t flaunt it in conversation.
“What are they hiding?”
Just being with “you” mutually can seem duplicitous.
Jan. 11 | “A literarity of dramactional dailiness” begins a series on literary venturing.
Jan. 10 | Musing about literary sensibility is next. Where that’ll go I do not know.
Jan. 6 | 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.
Jan. 3 | By “highly resorting,” I implicitly suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny.
Dec. 31 | “Of philological gardening” anticipates philological (or literary) work to be available soon here, but mostly renders a notion of “recursive genera-
tivity” (mindful creativity) relative to my recent online discussions. “Aspira-
tional flourishing“ takes that theme forward very expressively.
