FOR THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, I have been fraught with a perturbing impetus to outline a project — a life project. That is, to outline a particular set of concerns, etc., that I see myself continuing to examine and interact with throughout my life’s work. Frankly, it has been quite frustrating. There has been a sense of weariness and fear of self-pretension, and while this concern has not gone away, neither has the unnerving propulsion (or desire) to outline this “project”. To a certain degree, I think it will be helpful for me, in the sense that my
work will have a more narrow focus, rather than being impetuous, spontaneous, and sporadic. Over the next several weeks, I hope to begin narrowing down my concerns, so that I might be able to elucidate for myself a coherent project, and begin to focus more critically in those specific areas. At the present moment, and this has been a consistent theme, there are three areas — and, yes, I am aware of their broad scope — with which I am concerned: philosophy, theology, and hermeneutics.
Explicating a Coherent (Life)-Project
March 3, 2010 by Joshua C. Dorman
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Where do you “store” such work? How do you keep track of your projects? On a computer? Journals? Notebooks? I’d love to know some of your methodology and practice.
Dan
begin by smoking pot. just kidding. Josh, you are a the product of perpetual processes, clashing forces of nature have coupled with your decisions amalgamating into one big chaotic metaphysical mess defined in every blip of an instant, every sustained moment, before being distorted by the next. You are production, consumption, and record. Do not pretend you can escape pretension, just indulge! (and keep a detailed journal of your experiences, so you can exploit them later of course, for academic fame and women, duh!).
Dan,
Computer, journals, and notebooks
Lately, notebooks. I am trying to maintain a more consistent practice of keeping things in a single place. I feel like I have begun to formulate a uniform methodological approach, but it is mostly nascent. Practice: I have to admit I am still learning what it means.
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Edwin,
Wow. I laughed hysterically at that.
Welcome to the club!