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discursive living | CONTACT |
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recent: dec. 22 and earlier |
| • Dec 31: Of philological gardening • jan 1: aspirational flourishing • jan 6: purposive rationality • jan 3: highly resorting • jan 11: a literarity of dramactional dailiness |
sense of this site, as of... october 2025 all conceptual venturing To cell phone readers: Sorry. |
| January 17 |
| I don’t have a new discussion for linking above, but 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 auther 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 Today’s discussion 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 I suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny. Jan. 2 Best wishes for your new year. The December discussion above anticipates philological (or literary) work to be available soon here, but mostly renders a notion of “recursive generativity” (mindful creativity) relative to my recent online discussions. The January 1 discussion takes that theme forward very expressively. |
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next check-in January 24 |
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