This website’s theme is hand-coded, a custom product of my programming skill. Because of that, development is haggard. I am currently working on the implementation of the site and an adjacent project so the information presented within is even more accessible (particularly when rendered across different devices).
I did publish a full, long, hard… blog post, but, I realized that the last part of it was incomplete, and as written, is a bit strange in a way that might lead others to think I’m not aware of a few very important things, and so I have temporarily removed it.
This may seem odd to mention, but I have to be careful about what people might be led to conclude as it’s become quite dangerous to do otherwise. This is an extreme challenge of my skill, and expression, because taking great pains to make sure people are able to know what I know and am aware of obviously requires so. many. more. words. to accomplish in a way that satisfies me. Making sure they take me at my word in good faith is nigh-impossible now, so, why spend even more words trying to do that?
As an illustration, it’s also a bit pointless, to a degree, because even though I “took it down” temporarily, the copy I had put up as a Work In Progress is forever immortalized at places like ghostarchive.org. Yeah, I’m aware. And that’s fine, as long as I address it, because, once again, it is so very easy for someone acting in bad faith, the kind you’re never supposed to commit, to claim that the evidence of its removal is thus evidence of my impulsiveness.
I could go on here, at length, about how impossible double-standards make things impossible: on the one hand I should develop everything in the open to be more “authentic” and exist in an audience’s minds, almost like it’s a moral duty, and on the other hand I should never take a step back and decide that something’s not quite right, a misstep if deemed official, and so, needs rewritten. If I post, and then realize something the next morning that makes it unwise, so I then un-post to fix it because it would cause confusion (and further misleading commentary), I’m fucked with the unshakeable observation of chronic, dangerous, self-unaware impulsivity.
Dude. It’s a blog post.
I have reasons I don’t that don’t exist in other people’s minds, ones they cannot really know.
Anyway,
I do have this to publish in the meantime:
The Glossary‘s First Draft
I’ve never been keen on publishing first drafts,
unless I can consider them the final draft
as well, such as my Small Cumfurts episodes, which were written by hand in one day for the amusement of my husband Maus and my former friend Liana Kerzner (who showered them with praise in her signature pity the poor bottom-feeder
fashion that her audience seems to enjoy).
However, I’ve realized since then that far too many individuals, the likes of which tout themselves as educated in things like Spanish Literature, believe that not being Terminally Online
reveals the truth that things not on the Internet don’t actually exist.
Despite my experience of not publishing a word of Small Cumfurts on the public Internet for more than a year, I must defer to their expertise in not being Terminally Online
like me, so, they must know.
So, here is a true first draft of something I’m working on, at complete random:
The Glossary
A SUBJECT is whatever is being described.
A BOUNDARY is a limit by which one or more SUBJECTs are distinguished from others.
A CONDITION is that which may apply to a SUBJECT as a state, configuration, or circumstance, thereby characterizing that SUBJECT.
BOUNDED is the CONDITION of having a BOUNDARY.
A TRANSITION is a change by which a SUBJECT passes from one CONDITION to another.
MUTABILITY is the ability for a SUBJECT to TRANSITION.
MUTABLE is the CONDITION by which a SUBJECT is capable of MUTABILITY.
A CONSTRAINT is a CONDITION by which a SUBJECT's possibilities are restricted.
CONSTRAINED describes a SUBJECT to which a CONSTRAINT applies.
A RESTRAINT is an externally imposed CONSTRAINT.
IMMUTABILITY is the CONSTRAINT that keeps a SUBJECT from undergoing TRANSITION.
IMMUTABLE is the CONDITION of a SUBJECT that is CONSTRAINED by IMMUTABILITY.
An INVARIANT is a CONDITION that is IMMUTABLE.
A RELATION is an association by which two or more SUBJECTs are treated as connected.
An ASPECT is a criterion, RELATION, or other facet under which a SUBJECT is considered.
IDENTITY is the INVARIANT by which a SUBJECT is recognized as the same in the ASPECT of being the very same SUBJECT.
DISTINCTION is the CONDITION of being unable to satisfy IDENTITY in comparison to another SUBJECT.
DISTINCT describes a SUBJECT standing in DISTINCTION from another SUBJECT.
A PROCESS is an ordered course by which one or more SUBJECTs come to be under a new CONDITION or RELATION.
An OPERATION is a unitary act within a PROCESS by which a SUBJECT is transformed, related, or otherwise affected.
A MODE is a CONDITION that configures how a SUBJECT, PROCESS, or OPERATION proceeds or is taken to apply.
EQUIVALENCE is a CONDITION by which SUBJECTs that are DISTINCT are treated as the same in one or more ASPECTs.
EQUIVALENT describes two or more SUBJECTs sharing an EQUIVALENCE.
An INSTANCE is a SUBJECT that is a singularly specific occurrence or exemplification considered as one among potentially multiple occurrences.
A REFERENCE is a RELATION by which an INSTANCE is denoted or picked out.
IDENTICAL describes two or more REFERENCEs as sharing IDENTITY by virtue of denoting the same INSTANCE.
A TERM is a designation by which a REFERENCE is made.
A DISCOURSE is the description, consideration, or treatment of SUBJECTs, DISTINCTIONs, RELATIONs, and TERMs as relevant.
A DOMAIN is a field of DISCOURSE within which DISTINCTIONs, RELATIONs, and TERMs are recognized as relevant.
An ONTOLOGY is a system of foundational TERMs and RELATIONs by which a DOMAIN is described.
A MEDIUM is a DOMAIN within which a SUBJECT may be rendered knowable.
PROJECTIVE is the CONDITION of a RELATION by which one SUBJECT is made present, knowable, or otherwise available through another SUBJECT.
PROJECTION is the PROCESS by which a RELATION that is PROJECTIVE is established.
A REPRESENTATION is a mediating SUBJECT that stands in a RELATION that is PROJECTIVE to another SUBJECT to render the other SUBJECT present within a MEDIUM.
A LEXEME is a REPRESENTATION that functions as a TERM.
An ENCODING is a PROJECTION by which a SUBJECT is rendered knowable through a systematic correspondence between DISTINCTIONs in the
MEDIUM and DISTINCTIONs of the SUBJECT.
ENCODED describes a REPRESENTATION produced by ENCODING.
A UNIT is the smallest distinguishable member of a MEDIUM.
A COLLECTION is a BOUNDED grouping of UNITs considered together for delimitation, application, or establishing REFERENCE.
A SEQUENCE is a COLLECTION whose members are treated as having a linear order.
A CONTEXT is a system of conventions that determines the possible structure, meaning, and effect of a COLLECTION.
OPERATIVE describes that which pertains to, consists in, or brings about OPERATIONs within a CONTEXT.
SEMANTIC is the CONDITION of bearing on meaning, significance, or OPERATIVE import within a CONTEXT.
A FORM is a COLLECTION recognized by a CONTEXT as a structured unit of meaning.
An ELEMENT is a BOUNDED subdivision of a FORM.
SYNTACTIC is the CONDITION of bearing on structure, composition, or validity of FORMs within a CONTEXT.
An INTERPRETER is the mechanism by which a COLLECTION is recognized as a FORM and assigned meaning within a CONTEXT.
An INTERPRETIVE-SHIFT is a TRANSITION within an INTERPRETER by which it enters into a different MODE when assigning structure, meaning, or effect to a FORM within a CONTEXT.
INTERPRETATION is the PROCESS by which an INTERPRETER determines the possible structure, meaning, and effect of a FORM within a CONTEXT.
To RESOLVE is to render an interpreted FORM more definite in meaning, effect, or further FORM within a CONTEXT.
RESOLUTION is the PROCESS of resolving.
EVALUATION is the PROCESS by which the INTERPRETER achieves RESOLUTION of an interpreted FORM within a CONTEXT.
ACTUAL is the CONDITION of being in force within a CONTEXT.
REALIZATION is the PROCESS by which an evaluated FORM becomes ACTUAL within a CONTEXT.
REIFICATION is the PROCESS by which an evaluated FORM is rendered as a REPRESENTATION of a possible REALIZATION within a CONTEXT.
REIFIED describes a REPRESENTATION produced by REIFICATION.
A SEMANTIC-SHIFT is a TRANSITION in the SUBJECT, ASPECT, purpose, or OPERATIVE concern addressed within a UNIT, or its composites: a COLLECTION, FORM, or ELEMENT.