Noematics 101, an inquiry into writing as phenomenology

DRAFT What is this journey about? what are some preliminary notes about what noematics is? and what are its central concerns? The initial question for this journey into writing as phenomenology is this: Is a writing--any/all "texts"--a product of phenomenological methods and "a direct description of our experience as it is"? Noematics (the blog), begun in 2007 and concluded earlier this year, 2012, is a collection of data that begged further examination. Each entry was an attempt to describe a specific something based on the assumption that a piece of writing put forth for a reader was in effect a likeness of what was in the writer's (my) consciousness, a thing or complex of things communicated as carefully and precisely as possible to be experienced and re-experienced as the thing itself. Sometimes the subject of the writing was itself a description of a phenomenon. In spite of this variation, whatever the perspective or type of writing, a piece of writing...

A. For each writing, what is the phenomenon described? Can it be rendered in a word or phrase? This is to say that each is about something--a noema, an X, an it . B. Is each writing "a direct description of our experience [of that something] as it is"? This is to say, or claim, that each is a phenomenological description comprised of both the it and how one experiences that it . C. Each writing as an  it in itself is an object of intentional gaze, or could be; each is a phenomenon which can itself be described, both noema and noesis. Which, 1 or 2 below, is more clearly a writing/text/work as phenomenological description? . . . Just to get things started. SAMPLE #1 {BEGIN WRITING} The last poem Years and years and years past I would write a gift, and thought it shared the love at Christmas. Now and now and now at last through the years I sift, and think to share our love at Christ's mass. Then and then and then repast I would mine eyes uplif...

"If you can interact with the thing you are investigating in such a way that you can determine . . . that it is questioning you back, then you have something real." Don Ihde in a November 14, 2000 interview (http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/dihde/articles/ihde_interview.html).

The web site collecting data for and making notes about noematics  ended with this entry, abbreviated for purposes here. 'First and fundamental. Interests--what characterizes and drives people--center around questions, or quests.' 'For my part my question/quest goes something like this. 'Can I increase my general and specific knowledge in the areas of science and epistemology, phenomenology's relation to absolutely accurate understandings of selected things, including the person-as-subject, and writing's role in all of these? 'These interests/quests take me into an inner world and personal or private study, often observations, of the realities of self and others as expressed in words meant to be heard or read. Thus the central aspect of my studies is expression; however, my expression, my words, are for "no audience." They are not other-directed. I invite no one to view my personal evolutions unless for some reason they show an interest, o...