the iconoclast's descending

  If the essay is the meteorology of poiesis--attendant and ethically constructive reason without ration-- the poem is its daychart navigation and logged course.   Grounding Language: Nominalism through Kairesis, Post-Secular Modernity, and the Poiesis of Iconoclasm as Radical Immanence Douglas Blake Olds, May 28, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Modernity reframed the relationship between language and reality, replacing tradition-bound metaphysics with individual accountability and nominalist correctives to Platonic abstraction. From apophatic theology through Protestant ...

  Foundlings: A New Era’s Possibles of Poetic Repair Douglas Blake Olds, May 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   “Fragments are not abandoned to the elements; they are the elemental.” This line, from the penultimate section of my forthcoming poetry anthology The Inexhaustible Always in the Exhausted Speaks , extends metaphysical revolt. Poetic fragments and marginalia challenge systems that sever knowledge from embodiment and counter Heideggerian notions of totalizing situatedness—where destiny’s "thrownness" threatens to drown grace’s proprioceptive and kinesthetic unfoldi...

  Saturday, May 10, 2025   Gameplay as the arena for gratitude and chivalry Douglas Blake Olds  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]     [My son honored me by asking for some ideas about gratitude and a sermon about teamwork. Follows the text I sent him about the former and under that is the sermon about the latter.]   Culture and teamwork, like gratitude, are cultivated. We emulate who we admire. So that gratitude is foundational to the tested friendships I’ve found with you. Not just loyalty to a goal and collective, but admiration for your gifts behind your act...

the iconoclast's descending  (to challenge systems fleeing accountability) Mandate for a Tribunal of Iconoclastic Repair after Diagnosis   Judges 16:23-30; Daniel 2:31-43;  Matthew 16:18;  21:12-13 ;  24:2; 15-28  Douglas Blake Olds 26 May 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   A New Chapter of Theological-Poetic Witness: Prophetic announcement  without  authorial finality . Moral authority lives by witness, not through peer validation. A phase change, from lament to poiesis,  for those who sense that neither tradition nor technique c...