This is very useful. It has been a longstanding failure on my part to actually read Husserl and bracketing, especially given my recent neo-Pyrrhonist reading (with William Hazlitt more recently as a side dish). Reading your description of *suspension* in relation to the reductions in this phenomenological method allows me to see that my own use of suspension (of judgment) is Husserl-adjacent. I do not think of it as a reduction though, I assume this is in playful reference to induction/deduction?
I have developed a 'blur' which seeks to occlude the differences in our categories as an aid to re-framing, and is thus an active epistemological method.
Example of a blur of mine is represented as art/religion/poltity, and are offered as an aid to the cultural taphonomies of our big history, as a type of anti-archeology, which re-layers the stratigraphy of our use in order to winnow the chaff of the day from the grains of truth in them (categories).
On occasion I have been accused of being 'pomo' because of my love of language in play and in inquiry. But I do not think it is language all the way down, or up, (if only because of anaduralia). I do think investigating epistemologically through language-use is well worth the etymological effort. (especially the worlding urge to find what things truly mean!).
The history of language-use produces a blur all of its own, especially by way of contranymic revelations. Down originally meant up you know. Why should something that basic flip in meaning?
At this point I need to note that I am a failed poet, and not a failed philosopher, nor failed scientist, nor failed sociologist, nor failed anthropologist, and we will only know if I am a failed generalist after my death.
All of the above reminds me of Robert Graves' "mythopoetic" method, about which I have a side-long glance here via:
This is very useful. It has been a longstanding failure on my part to actually read Husserl and bracketing, especially given my recent neo-Pyrrhonist reading (with William Hazlitt more recently as a side dish). Reading your description of *suspension* in relation to the reductions in this phenomenological method allows me to see that my own use of suspension (of judgment) is Husserl-adjacent. I do not think of it as a reduction though, I assume this is in playful reference to induction/deduction?
I have developed a 'blur' which seeks to occlude the differences in our categories as an aid to re-framing, and is thus an active epistemological method.
Example of a blur of mine is represented as art/religion/poltity, and are offered as an aid to the cultural taphonomies of our big history, as a type of anti-archeology, which re-layers the stratigraphy of our use in order to winnow the chaff of the day from the grains of truth in them (categories).
On occasion I have been accused of being 'pomo' because of my love of language in play and in inquiry. But I do not think it is language all the way down, or up, (if only because of anaduralia). I do think investigating epistemologically through language-use is well worth the etymological effort. (especially the worlding urge to find what things truly mean!).
The history of language-use produces a blur all of its own, especially by way of contranymic revelations. Down originally meant up you know. Why should something that basic flip in meaning?
https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/posts-on-the-blur.html
For the substackers the older posts are at (will get increasing out of date but are where I started):
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/slash-and-burn-is-a-category-killer
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/the-blur-as-a-technique-in-the-methodology
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/cormac-orthography-more-or-less
At this point I need to note that I am a failed poet, and not a failed philosopher, nor failed scientist, nor failed sociologist, nor failed anthropologist, and we will only know if I am a failed generalist after my death.
All of the above reminds me of Robert Graves' "mythopoetic" method, about which I have a side-long glance here via:
https://whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com/posts-on-writing-consciousness-and-altered-states.html