Two more parts of my literary-conceptual project are available: “Literary ascen-
sion” and “the end of ‘Literature’?.”

Three new parts of my literary-conceptual project are available: “what is Literature better understood to be?,” “glyphicality as narrative,” and “engaging text made to speak.” The project will have many sections, later to be listed as a single set of cohering discussions.

Feb. 20
“Creating novel wilderness isn’t about tourism” prospects more interest in literary creativity, beyond the Feb. 13 series.

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’.”

Jan. 30
Implicitly pervasive want of interpretation in much experience can credibly imply a “textuality” of meaningful life which I’m modeling as “a dramactional condition” of oneself in apt interaction, such that the converse experience by another person—or for much of one’s experience, maybe—can be like reading as a kind
of writing.

Jan. 11
“Purposive rationality” suggests that high interests of flourishing deserve to be
the horizon of explanation and justification. This implicitly counters Jürgen Habermas’s conception of rationality, though he eventually appreciates my focus (first paragraph here), coincidently (not due to awareness of my view).

Jan. 3
Items f and g below are the first two parts of a project whose third and fourth part are posted today: “Of philological gardening” and “aspirational flourishing,” on my way now by resort.

November 21, 2025
Topics a—e are supplementary to the autumn project (items f and g); and sundries (non-lettered) are just part of the general Project. That’s discussed a bit more at “2025 update notes.”