prefacing the Project • gary e. davis • berkeley


		The Project

	preface: being of the play gary e. davis	May 2022

August 2021

Getting beyond prefacing can be difficult in principle, in the folkish sense that “today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

I recall Derrida’s issue of The Preface, such that everything becomes preface to prefacing The Preface; and Heidegger avowed late in life that he was merely
a precursor.

May 2022

To my mind, that’s largely because future work becomes the retrospective province for understanding previous work, thereby implicitly rendering
previous work prefacial to generative ongoingness or one’s Work.

The dates below highlight that this Area of the Project—like all Areas—is somewhat bricolagic for the sake of later writing a singular narrative that will be final for Cycle 4 of this multi-Areal project (which will finally get a specific title).

-|- May 2022

being, preferring, belonging, love, individuation, flourishing, creativity,... conceptual audacity?

-|- Dec ember 2020

As if no earlier beginning had been fashioned, this is the beginning I always was:
opening each day in its own presence, being in a presence of ultimate Opening.

-|- December, 2018

In May, I improvised a sense of beginning that I uploaded, then didn’t read again. After months of my normal offline eccentricity, I sought to write some postings that would genuinely address a reader who has no idea why I do this site (part 1). Then I improvised a little from that (parts 2—7). But when I was ready to combine the seven December postings into a singular beginning for Cycle 4 of this site, I realized that what I wrote in May was already thematically beyond what I’d just written. So, this set of eight excursions (some very short, none much longer than
a normal-sized page) is followed by what was done in May, still prefaced by the short opening of last February.

Aren’t you glad to know.

-|- August 2021