phenomenAlogy as tropology • gary e. davis • berkeley


	Area	Spring Points

	phenomenalogy as tropology gary e. davis	June 2020

When I did “mirroring involvement with window” three years ago, I was more in
a mood of phenomenogeny (creative responsiveness) than framing phenomenal appeal. So, a resulting phenomenality (e.g., in accessible creative writing, not instanced by “mirroring...”) can become a topic of reflective (authorial) recon-struction of work that is autobiographically “phenomenological,” which I called “phenomenAlogical,” to distinguish interest in authorial reflection from another’s appellant phenomenality (the normal disposition of phenomenal analysis). In light of what’s preceding here, the venture three years ago might make more sense. So, I’m reproducing a few passages from that which seem pertinent:

Phenomenography bears (letting be) what one can grant (letting be). And derived phenomenology is constructed post facto, which can validate a genealogy (“history”) of given phenomenography (e.g., what investigative journalism does), thereby enstancing a phenomenogeny. Is that a temporal tropography (a conceptual rhetoric of development) of its subject phenomenography?

Immanently, a phenomenon has a generative background, apart from a phenomenological claim about its genealogy (which is reconstructive, re-presentative). By examining the individuation of one’s interest/preference, capability, and engagement (a very difficult clinical venture), a genealogy of an understanding, in terms of specific phenomena, can be derived in terms of the life, with all kinds of phenomenological frames applicable.

Phenomenology is authentically a discourse of emergence, not a discourse of genesis. Notions of genealogy are always post facto relative to what calls for explanation….

-Ologies derive from -ogenies serving their telic phenomenographies— geneses of tropographies calling for explanation. Reconstructions serve already-emergent purposes, and how that is best modeled to be is a phen-omenalogy, so to speak distinctively (distinct from ordinary reference to “phenomenology” that pretends to disclose perdurant constitutivities).

…there is difference between enacting and resultant act; emergence (phen-omen-ogeny), stance (phenomenography), and telic cohering derived about it (phenomen-alogy).

the receptive/responsive difference is “perpendicular” to graphical, “genetic,” and logical difference; i.e., each of the three can be usefully regarded as involving rc/rs presencing.

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