Dennis Bouvard
pen name of Adam Katz
Dennis Bouvard is the pen name used by Adam Katz for his Substack writing. These ~127 essays apply the originary framework to contemporary questions of technology, governance, currency, and AI — tracing how Center Study concepts illuminate the digital economy, political succession, and the anthropology of the algorithm.
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179 postsMay 2026SubstackThe Theseus Ship Anti-RevolutionApr 2026SubstackTrails of AttentionalityApr 2026SubstackStyle: Markers and Measurements of DeferralMar 2026SubstackPerfecting the Imperative and Imperative Exchange: Originary FinTechMar 2026SubstackPromise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, MessiahMar 2026SubstackIdiom and the differendFeb 2026SubstackCredit-Idiom-Imperative Perfection: Expectant ScenesJan 2026SubstackMedia, Technology and Originary GrammarJan 2026SubstackThe Grammar of TechnologyJan 2026SubstackIdiomcliningDec 2025SubstackRotating DictatorshipDec 2025SubstackCompressionNov 2025SubstackOriginary Debt, Credit, SuccessionOct 2025SubstackVe/ortexicality: Post-Axial Age MoralityOct 2025SubstackAddressing an Objection to the Originary HypthesisSep 2025SubstackAnthropomorphicsSep 2025SubstackNotes on Governance and Center Study PoliticsAug 2025SubstackCredit and SuccessionAug 2025SubstackTagging and Tracking the HumanJul 2025SubstackThe PointmanJul 2025SubstackMeasuring DeferralJun 2025SubstackSecular ThinkingJun 2025SubstackNomos and Transfer TranslationJun 2025SubstackA Couple of Texts on Writing PedagogyMay 2025SubstackDeferral, Debt and the IdiomMay 2025SubstackMonopolyMay 2025SubstackTokenizing DeferralityApr 2025SubstackAll You Need Is LanguageApr 2025SubstackThe Problem of Obedience, RevisitedMar 2025SubstackAntisemitism and PowerMar 2025SubstackToward a Curriculum for the New Officer Class AcademyFeb 2025SubstackDeactivating the LegislatureJan 2025SubstackJudaism as Civilizational BlockchainJan 2025SubstackThe Thing That It Is: Toward a Curriculum for the Officer ClassDec 2024SubstackOn Credit and the IdiomDec 2024SubstackOn the Existence of World ScenesNov 2024SubstackUniversal Translation MachineNov 2024SubstackThe Palestine WarOct 2024SubstackTrails of Liminal SuccessionOct 2024SubstackBlockchaining the CenterOct 2024SubstackDemand and the Grammar of DesireSep 2024SubstackStacked PresencingSep 2024SubstackNomos/Class ActionSep 2024SubstackTokenizing the PrimesAug 2024SubstackContinuum of PowerAug 2024SubstackThinking only through ModelsJul 2024SubstackReconstituting KinshipJul 2024SubstackThe Political Infrastructure of Judaism: The Inscription of the Reality and Vanity of EmpireJul 2024SubstackDownstream of the ImperativeJun 2024SubstackMining Idioms in ThirdnessJun 2024SubstackThirdness and the Same SentenceJun 2024SubstackThe Tokenization of ResentmentMay 2024SubstackBrute Force Computation and the Debt to the CenterMay 2024SubstackThe Same SentenceApr 2024SubstackDebt and the StackApr 2024SubstackA Bit More Granularity for a Cybernetics of Judaism and ThirdnessApr 2024SubstackThe Sentence as MetricMar 2024SubstackLearncoinMar 2024SubstackSingularized Succession in PerpetuityFeb 2024SubstackModeling Thirdness 2Feb 2024SubstackModeling ThirdnessFeb 2024SubstackIf… Then: The Idiom of Data ExchangeJan 2024SubstackInfra-HumaningJan 2024SubstackA Cybernetics of JudaismJan 2024SubstackMuffled Transmission from the CenterDec 2023SubstackPartitioning and Parceling the ImperativeDec 2023SubstackTokenizationDec 2023SubstackThirdnessNov 2023SubstackDebits and CreditsNov 2023SubstackImperatives for Idiom CreationNov 2023SubstackA New Model of PowerOct 2023SubstackExhaustive ImitationOct 2023SubstackHostage TakingOct 2023SubstackFit to MeasureSep 2023SubstackData ExchangeSep 2023SubstackThe Contingency of the HypothesisSep 2023SubstackCentrifugal SignifyingAug 2023SubstackIdioms as Operationalized SamplesAug 2023SubstackDesigning Idioms for Data TreatmentAug 2023SubstackPresence and Intention in Sampling as CurrencyJul 2023SubstackThe Sample as Our Donation to the CenterJul 2023SubstackThe Longest, Most Convoluted, Revised and Thickly Imagined Title Deed PossibleJul 2023SubstackThe Scene is the SameJun 2023SubstackPerfecting the ImperativeJun 2023SubstackIdiomatic Intelligence and the Black BoxJun 2023SubstackTechno-GrammarMay 2023SubstackScene StackingMay 2023SubstackFrom Consultative Stand-Off to Slush Funded Grants of Bureaucratic Authority: Modern LegislaturesMay 2023SubstackThe Affordances of God, ContinuedApr 2023SubstackThere is No EconomyApr 2023SubstackBack to GrammarApr 2023SubstackData as Currency and the Debt to the CenterMar 2023SubstackInitiativeMar 2023SubstackProgrammingMar 2023SubstackThreading through HistoryFeb 2023SubstackTransfer Idiom as Infra-programFeb 2023SubstackOn the Juridical/Disciplinary LineJan 2023SubstackOptions on SuccessionJan 2023SubstackDual UseJan 2023SubstackThe Transfer IdiomJan 2023SubstackBreakdownDec 2022SubstackThe Scene On Which You Find YourselfDec 2022SubstackTethering and Toggling Ritual, Juridical and DisciplinaryNov 2022SubstackProgramming the SameNov 2022SubstackIdiomatic Intelligence as RegisterNov 2022SubstackThe Sufficiency of Singularized Succession in PerpetuityNov 2022SubstackThe Sufficiency of Singularized Succession in PerpetuityOct 2022SubstackWisdom as Searching the Central IntelligenceOct 2022SubstackWill Have Been the Same: Future Perfectism, or Derivatives of the TributaryOct 2022SubstackMedia as RitualSep 2022SubstackOriginary Grammar as Model for Scenic Design IntelligenceSep 2022SubstackThe Holding and the Held Center: Beyond DisagreementSep 2022SubstackThrough and Out of PoliticsAug 2022SubstackLiterature as Para-Data and Intelligence Exchange with the CenterAug 2022SubstackLanguaging OrderingAug 2022SubstackQuestioning GodJul 2022SubstackWar, Art, Bureaucracy and other MiscellaniesJul 2022SubstackSome Political ReflectionsJul 2022SubstackThe Center, its Affordances and Issuances, and Time.Jul 2022SubstackOn Love, Resentment and the Early ChroniclesJul 2022SubstackGenerating Idiomatic Intelligences and Translation PracticesJun 2022SubstackWriting as the Programming of Scenes: The Affordances of GodJun 2022SubstackProgramming and Visuality: Toward Inscipto-Punctual CultivationMay 2022SubstackConverting Assets to Data: TributarianismMay 2022SubstackDisciplinarity and the CenterMay 2022SubstackMedia as Infrastructural TranslationApr 2022SubstackOriginary CalculusApr 2022SubstackOriginary StyleMar 2022SubstackInscripto-punctualismMar 2022SubstackInfiltrative InscriptionMar 2022SubstackInscriptionFeb 2022SubstackOriginary Reflections on EdenFeb 2022SubstackNegative CapabilityFeb 2022SubstackResentmentJan 2022SubstackIntelligence and TechnicsJan 2022SubstackLanguage, the Ultimate Source and Analysis of DataDec 2021SubstackOriginary Hypothesis as Shared Source and TargetDec 2021SubstackSelvingDec 2021SubstackScenic/Linguistic UndecidabilityNov 2021SubstackFiguring Things OutNov 2021SubstackScaleNov 2021SubstackErgodismOct 2021SubstackOriginary Hypothesis as Mobius StripOct 2021SubstackRevivalisticsSep 2021SubstackScenic/Event IntelligenceSep 2021SubstackEvent IntelligenceSep 2021SubstackBeing Like Data; the Central IntelligenceAug 2021SubstackTranslating InfrastructureAug 2021SubstackPetitioning TechnologyAug 2021SubstackGAE, UnironicallyJul 2021SubstackThe Same SampleJul 2021SubstackIn the Image: Towards an Emulation EconomyJul 2021SubstackThe Transdisciplinarity of the HypothesisJun 2021SubstackThe Prospects of the HypothesisJun 2021SubstackThe Originary Hypothesis in ItselfJun 2021SubstackData as CurrencyMay 2021SubstackData Mining the SentenceMay 2021SubstackLanguage as Model for Technics: Literature Between Translation and TranspositionMay 2021SubstackToward a Unified IdiomApr 2021SubstackFict-tech-tion; Archae-tectureApr 2021SubstackStaged Succession: Marginalizing the Victimary and Scapegoating in a Single MoveApr 2021SubstackWriting as TechnicsMar 2021SubstackGlobal DominionMar 2021SubstackParadoxes of Self-Referentiality as Algorithmic PracticeMar 2021SubstackBe an Interface Between Power and the UserMar 2021SubstackAlgorithmizing Sampling PracticesFeb 2021SubstackOstensive-Imperative Generativity and Scenic Design PracticesFeb 2021SubstackIdiomatic Intelligence/Intelligent IdiomaticityFeb 2021SubstackStacking Against the Big SceneJan 2021SubstackThe Algorithm as Originary StackJan 2021SubstackAssigning for InteroperabilityJan 2021SubstackSampling on the Data ExchangeDec 2020SubstackMimological ImpressmentsDec 2020SubstackScenic Design Practices: The Transfer Translation of Events into ScenesDec 2020SubstackScenic TechnicsDec 2020SubstackThe SignNov 2020SubstackThe Bearer of SovereigntyNov 2020SubstackOriginary HypothesizingNov 2020SubstackReconceptualizing Desire