Beauty
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Stendhal
LAST UPDATED 8/03/26 · THIS PAGE IS ALWAYS UNFINISHED
Welcome!!My name is Shae. I write and research, and I edit video as a way of thinking out loud. What is on this page is ONE LONG ARGUMENT broken into pieces small enough to carry. Here is the whole thing in one sentence: nothing worth saying about people can be said without, somewhere, pointing back at the person saying it. I call this a phenomenological reduction of social phenomena back to the private consciousness that has to host them. It is hard to understand. I am working on it. EXPERIENCE IS THE FINAL JUSTIFIER OF TRUTH. NEW HERE? Ten minutes and you will know whether the rest is for you — START HERE. (After that, follow the links out of order. That is what they are for.) What’s Inside
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8/03/26 — Site rebuilt!! Black sky, spinning head.
8/14/24 — Discursive Commitments revised. 6/01/24 — Script posted: ‘Being’ a YouTuber. 11/10/22 — Documents for Edification opened to the public.
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The Sprawl
a network of thoughts, laid out for dissection
What follows is Documents for Public Edification: a philosophy of thought, a philosophy of action, and a philosophy of interpretation, plus the tools used to build each. Start anywhere. The starred documents are load-bearing; everything else is an appendage for clarification. BELIEVE NOTHING WRITTEN HERE. Only if you can practice it might you begin to believe it.
1. TOOLS
the instruments. read these first!! (11 documents)
- Against Detachment
- Preliminaries for a transcendental hermeneutics
- Preliminaries for a transcendental semiotics
- Preliminaries for an immanent hermeneutics
- Preliminaries for an immanent semiotics
- Premissive Philosophy∶ Refutations
- Prospective Outline in Totality
- Reconstructive Outline
- System of Premissive Philosophy in General Outline
- The big plan
- Towards a theory of introduction
2. MANIFESTOS
what is to be done. no hedging. (2 documents)
3. IDEATIONS
worlds sketched before they are argued for (6 documents)
- Conditions for Pure Joy
- Conditions for the creation of a just community
- Elements of a System of Social Cohesion
- Project for Absolute Living
- a social system of love in preliminary outline
- prelude to an encyclopedic anthropology of human coordination
4. NEGATIONS
the standing order, TAKEN APART (9 documents)
- Abstract consciousness
- Econo-culture
- Existential-social criticism, a sketch
- Explication of Neoliberal Culture
- Remarks on the secrets of capital
- The impotence of the individual
- Valences of Market Desire, Plan for the Commune
- the precession of capital
- the services of the status quo
5. AFFIRMATIONS
what survives the taking apart (9 documents)
- Attempt at the Creation of a Social Technology
- Epistemy and its limits
- Notes for Difference-Making
- Social-behavioral semiotics
- Thought and action, concretely considered
- clarifying private consciousness
- immanent structure of social communication
- the minimum knowledge constitutive of all human action and being
- two antagonistic modes of speech∶ productive and spokesman
6. APPENDICES
premises, conclusions & housekeeping (5 documents)
- WORKING PREMISES
- 05 UNIVERSAL CONCLUSIONS
- Expanded List of Video Types
- Plan for all resources
- Premissive Philosophy∶ Synthetic Conclusions
7. LOOSE PAPERS
referenced by the documents above (5 documents)
- A sketch of my reading pursuits
- Ends for a political phenomenology
- Rights in consciousness and society
- Some annoyances, in review
- depression and difference
8. VIDEO PLANS
how the channel is supposed to work (4 documents)