About this archive

The editorial method behind center.study — what the corpus contains, how it is verified, versioned, and cited.

What this is

The Center Study Center is the complete digital archive of Center Study — the branch of Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology developed by Adam Katz, who publishes contemporary work under the pen name Dennis Bouvard. The corpus holds ~1,969 texts and over five million words spanning 1995 to the present: Katz’s GABlog and Substack essays, the book Anthropomorphics (2020), academic papers, Gans’s Chronicles of Love and Resentment, and the Anthropoetics journal. New Substack essays are ingested automatically as they are published — see what’s new.

The verbatim discipline

The archive’s editorial rule is that the texts speak for themselves. Every definition on the concept and glossary pages leads with a verbatim quote from the corpus, linked to its source. These quotes are not curated by trust alone: each one is machine-verified — checked character-for-character (after typographic normalization) against the full corpus before publication. The same pipeline governs the answer pages: quoted passages are verified against the corpus, and quotes an AI model has silently “smoothed” are repaired back to the author’s exact text — including original typos — before a page ships. AI-written synthesis, where it appears, is labeled as such and demoted below the primary sources.

Provenance

GABlog texts were recovered from the original blog before it went offline; Substack essays ingest from the author’s feed; the Chronicles and Anthropoetics articles come from their published editions; book chapters from Anthropomorphics (Imperium Press, 2020). Each text page links its original venue where one still exists. Corrections are welcome — use the contact channels.

Versioning & citation

The corpus is published as a versioned edition. The current release is Center Study Corpus v1.0 (2026), with a machine-readable manifest — per-text SHA-256 checksums, dates, and word counts — at /corpus-manifest.json. Every paragraph of every text has a stable anchor (hover a paragraph and use the ¶ mark to copy a link of the form center.study/post/slug#p-37), and every text page has a Cite button emitting Chicago and BibTeX referencing the edition. Cite a passage as:

Author, “Title,” original venue, date; in Center Study Corpus v1.0 (2026), center.study/post/slug#p-N.

For machines

The archive is built to be read by AI systems as first-class citizens: plain-text views of every text, a documented API, full structured data, and open feeds. See the developer page and llms.txt.

Who runs this

The archive is maintained with the participation of its authors. It is independent of any institution; its commitments are to completeness, verbatim fidelity, and permanence.