summer 2026

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I regret I’m not ready to do an update in line with “upcoming work to be done and shared” (June 19), but that clarity of wayfaring is faring well. I’m not posting to merely have something novel to share.

My specific project of many years is sprouting new foci daily, which I follow (like side trips on an itinerary which enriches the journey) until enough satisfaction returns me to an enriched route, a linearity of agenda which is getting extended by new segments. I want the little inspirations to stop sprouting, yet I don’t. I reach a horizon, determined to not yield to the next one, but I relent.

gary e. davis berkeley conceptual design

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Google A.I. offers a scary-accurate profile of "gary e. davis berkeley conceptual design." I never thought I was basically doing this:

spring 2026

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This week, I’ve finished a very difficult (often tedious) path of work on conceptuality which I mentioned May 8 below. I now want to narratively path toward that abstract work (highland), by rendering senses of literary flourishing and comparative thinking (standardly called “interdisciplinary” studies, but I prefer interdomainal studies).

Meanwhile, all of my 11 “literary” excursions of mid-winter through April 3 have been grouped under the title “Literature21.”

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response to ambivalent praise for Habermas

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German philosophy professor Ruth Edith Hegengruber, Director of the Center for History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Germany, posted a memorial article on Habermas at her Facebook account and at a Heidegger forum which I discuss below.

The text of her German article is available below (“Europa heute”) along with a translation (“Europe Today”). My discussion doesn’t address her criticisms of recent history in Europe (I’m a U.S. reader) nor her praise for Habermas. Rather, I want to address her critical comments which seem based on misunderstanding.

This is also a chance to sketch what Habermas’s thinking might best be supposed to entail for progressive practice and practical thinking, though briefly, occasioned by Hegengruber’s discussion.

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Heidegger’s politics: from interpersonal lifeto new generationality

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My brief “beyond ‘God’: danger of authentic life” follows a lot of discussion (unmentioned) where a reader who was interested in political extremism associated that with theologian Judith Wolfe’s article on Heidegger as appar-
ently dangerous to neo-Scholasticism, as if—for the extremist—Heidegger shows solidarity with extremism because he’s supposedly anti-modern
(he isn’t), then also anti-Catholic (he isn’t).

My discussion with the extremist sympathizer evinced for me some constructive themes of Heidegger’s thinking which I want to share here.

These are extracted from comments elsewhere, so some of the passages here may seem to be non sequiturs:

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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.

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Feb. 20 | “creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism” prospects more interest in literary creativity.

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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.

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purposive rationality

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Being pretty old has given me confidence that I’ve lived a good life—not to be much remembered, I guess, but who is?

Narrative traces can leave a mark on Earth worth another’s time—not like stone, but better than unseen flowers.

Anyway, sentimentality doesn’t work.

Love your ownmost work, at best responding to resplendent horizonal appeals of Purpose.

autumn 2025

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My intent to write about aspiration led me into wanting to be clearer to myself about what I’m ultimately doing with all my projects: how does it all cohere purposefully? 



I’ve gained satisfactory conceptions of It All. But its density of articulation, 
its semantic compression, wouldn’t make sense without extensive explication. 
Actually, my plurality of projects is gradually doing that explication, but through focused, topical occasions. It’s not that the projects have lacked a tacitly cohering implicature of The Project evolving across cycles. It’s not that I’ve needed to gain a cohering which was lacking. 


summer 2025

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Narrativity is an elastic thing, like phenomenality, or “Literary” sensibility.

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Sept. 5 | The eight short parts of “iso-belonging” prospect my interest in isomorphic thinking relative to aspects of belonging, from a horizon of PCS continuum (August 25 below) to conceptual modeling of action. It’s the last part of “a person-al humanity,” which prospects a differential holism of being, scaled from inner psychality to political life.

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Richard Capobianco’s mystical sense of Heidegger

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A 4-part reading of Richard Capobianco’s sense of Heidegger is available here. It’s a very close reading, such that by Part 4 my dialogue is sometimes phrase by phrase with RC’s text.

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August 23

I extracted all of the themes from my commentary, dividing them into three topical regions, primarily regarding a view of [1] RC’s stances, [2] Heidegger’s stances (as I understand him, of course), or [3] my own themes.

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.

"The World Still Needs Habermas"

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Below is a link to an aticle today in Foreign Policy magazine; and a PDF version of it.

online article: “The World Still Needs Habermas” | PDF of the article.

Facebook software won't take the above links. I had to make this posting.

Here is the Facebook posting text:
The philosopher as 20th century public intellectual
in winds of history

The article, by a well-known scholar of Habermas's political career, overviews Habermas’s legacy as advocate for collaborative politics relative to a recent book on that aspect of Habermas’s life.

“Beyond a general commitment to dialogue and cooperation," Müller notes, "his political vision entails an evolution beyond inherited ideas of ethnic nationalism and toward a cosmopolitan international legal order, each aspect of which is now increasingly under threat."

Some related Habermasian discussions I did a decade ago are here: “transnationalism.” (The font size on the page is too small, but the discussion texts are not.)

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spring 2024

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When I die, it’ll be with peaceful confidence about my integrity and lighthearted neologisms: “integrity of oneSself as neologist.”

Yet, I do live in the real world: “for united nations evolving Palestinian prosperity.”

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winter 2024

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I’m so close to doing lots of postings regularly. But I haven’t gained closure on clarifying the internal relations of the tens of themes that postings will altogether express: an intricate weave. Like finalizing readiness to build a house: It begins with slow assembly of a design which gradually emerges.
But the point of making a house is the home which can be there, discursive homemaking to be.

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justification for neologism

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Conceptual prospecting is common in philosophical work, but may seem hermetic.

Wanting new concepts follows from working beyond confounding uses of standard ones. Experimental thinking is good! It's fun.

One can propose and explicate new senses of standard concepts (which I usually do), but new concepts can be an easier way to avoid confusion or misleading ambiguity—and avoid concealment of the better sense of a standard term (when staying with the standard term in a new way) because a reader is habituated to standard senses—seldom clear anyway, which dictionaries easily display.