Originary Hypothesizing
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The only argument I ever made within GA that received some attention and rebuttal was my critique of Eric Gans’s concept of the “internal scene of representation.” My reason for making this critique was to make space within GA for a performative, pragmaticist, extended mind and, now we might say, distributed consciousness, understanding of thinking.
I have written often about turning assets into data and thereby turning the “economy” (the entirety of exchanges with the center) into one of data exchange and I would like to flesh that out in the context of my previous post making an argument for tokenizing succession, which is to say, building a new kind of currency out of a very specialized kind of prediction market.
Soliciting the Center, Prolonging the Imperative, Curating Events
If we are no longer to think in terms of the liberal social contract in which we are each of us free individuals whose protection is guaranteed by the state on condition of law abidingness and not reintroducing the vendetta and thereby reject the revolutionary (i.e., large scale vendetta) implications of that conception, the question of how to account for and practice our exchanges with the center…
Sovereignty, tech and finance are to be articulated into a single scenic articulation, which on the terms of center study means the articulation of succession, the soliciting of the center and the prolonging of the imperative.
Center Study has no political theology, because what would be political theology is retracted into anthropology and anthropology is retracted into anthropomorphics, the constitution of the human through signs.
A kind of rigor of thought and action can be derived from creating the paradox of wanting complete transformation of all social institutions but not only without revolution but without anyone particularly noticing.
We are always on a scene, but any scene is at the intersection of any number of other scenes, and we can describe this fairly precisely and embed it consequentially in idioms.
Style is a fundamentally mimetic concept.
I have been using “perfecting the imperative” as an idiom for technology for a while now and have started to pursue it further in some recent posts, in part by refining it through the concept of “imperative exchange.” Imperative exchange is an extremely important concept for center study, as it, along with the ostensive-imperative-ostensive circuit, constitutes something like what Plato called…
