Projects.

[Friedrich]

It is impossible for me to post longer scholarly essays, short
stories, scripts, or other texts or even to edit writings at blogger
that are regularly altered by hackers. I have completed a long essay
"What is Memory?" Several other projects linger in my mind, including
a brief comment on a topic that also interested David Foster Wallace
-- the concept of infinity in mathematics and metaphysics. ("F.H.
Bradley's Absolute.")

I believe that, to the extent that there are persons interested in my
work, my treatment of the philosophy of memory and a related short
story ("Hansel & Gretl") is what would be most worthwhile and helpful,
in light of my personal experiences.

I deeply regret being prevented from writing and sharing these works
by censorship emanating from New Jersey. ("How censorship works in
America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

You cannot pursue a divided strategy in any human encounter -- or
struggle -- and expect things to turn out well. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana
Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it
like to be tortured?" then "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New
Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

Below are outlines of two works that I wish to post on-line, somehow
and somewhere -- if I can find a way to do so. My writings have been
plagiarized and censored, suppressed and destroyed, even as American
public officials call for tolerance of dissent on-line. Writers in
Cuba and China -- or anywhere -- will have to decide on the sincerity
of American calls for tolerance.

I am grateful for the support and good wishes of friends from many
places in the world.

"How Big is Infinity?"

Tony Gilroy, "The Big Questions: Mathematics" (New York: Metro, 2012),
pp. 55-65, pp. 142-152, pp. 104-113. ("Can you lie to yourself?")

Introduction: Georg Cantor is "Forever."

I. SET THEORY AND THE INFINITY REVOLUTION.

A. Distinguishing Infinity From Eternity.
B. Formulas Versus Equations.
C. The Puzzle of Time/Space -- "'In Time': A Movie Review."
D. Imagination is a Wonderful Thing.

II. HILBERT'S HOTEL AND BECKETT'S BROWNSTONE.

A. Open-Ended Versus Closed-Systems.
B. Anybody Got a Loop?
C. The Art Work in Hermeneutics: Realism Versus Intuitionism.

III. CANTOR'S "CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS" IN AESTHETICS AND MATHEMATICS.

A. Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutics.
B. Mathematical Recipes and the Formula For Everything.
C. Prigogine and the Formula For the Universe.

Conclusion: Godel's "Incompleteness" as a Hermeneutics of Freedom."


"What is Memory?"

G.E.M. Anscombe, 'Memory and the Past,' in "Metaphysics and The
Philosophy of Mind" (Minn.: U. Minn. Press, 1981), pp. 103-133.

Introduction: Issues and Definitions.

A. Psychoanalytic Issues.
B. Philosophical Issues.

I. PERSONAL HISTORY AS MEMORY: IS THE PAST "REAL"?

A. Representational Theories of Memory.
B. Realist Theories of Memory.
C. Critical Realist Theories of Memory.
D. Time and Narrative: Memory as Form in Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics.

II. COLLECTIVE HISTORY AS MEMORY AND MIRAGE.

A. Who defines what we remember as "real" in postmodernist cultures?
B. History, Culture, Politics and Other Fictions.

Conclusion: The Struggle For Memory.

A. A Hermeneutic Theory of Memory.