On Blogsite Writing and The 'Architecture' of Hegel's Hotel

Hegel's Hotel is about life -- and about man's relationship to his world, his culture, and to his/or her self. Thus, there is no such thing as a 'false direction' or a 'side-track' because every potential direction has the potential to be meaningful. It's just a matter of timing -- and the evolution of the writer/reader, teacher/student dialectic -- between you and me.

It is this evolving dialectic that will tell us what is best to write about -- not some righteous, anal-retentive, pre-planned agenda that doesn't fit with our mutal ongoing dialectic.

The 'Table of Contents' of Hegel's Hotel can -- and will -- be changed a hundred times before it is finished. It is not this that determines the particular direction and timing of Hegel's Hotel except in some broad, general -- always subject to change -- manner.

Rather, it is the teaching/learning dialectic between me as writer and you as reader with even our so-called 'roles' changing as you give feedback and I listen, or you write and I read -- that will determine the direction -- and particularly the timing -- of 'which floor and which rooms are built first and last' -- in the building of Hegel's Hotel.

In this regard, it is a hundred times better to write to a 'concrete motivated, intelligent reader' who reads, reflects, and asks meaningful questions -- than it is to write to 'The All-Encompasing, Unknown Reader' who may know a lot about philosophy, a little, or none at all -- but any way you slice it -- is basically 'without existence', a 'blank screen' who has no lifeblood pulsating through his or her arteries, no reflections to build from, no feedback that I can engage with -- all so badly needed to push the dialectic forward, in a creative, meaningful manner and direction.

'Blogsite writing' has the potential to be a much more powerful form of teaching and learning than 'old style book writing' because it has the capability of being much more concrete and more immediate -- adapting to one reader, one dialectic -- and/or many.

It brings with it the lifeblood of fresh engagement -- and the ability to turn corners, and/or make new and creative adaptations, on the basis of this fresh engagement.

Blogsite writing brings with it the aliveness of the 'fresh gestalt' as determined by the ongoing, evolving, always subject-to-change, dialectic between writer and reader.

dgb, April 27th, 2008.