Term
Absolute Imperative
used in 20 texts across the archive
“The absolute imperative is absolute because no imperative can be issued in return by the commanded (no “God get me out of this and I’ll never…”). The absolute imperative is to stand in the place of whomever is violently centralized, i.e., scapegoated.”
In use
“The absolute imperative is to stand in the place of whomever is violently centralized, i.e., scapegoated.”
“But that in turn means that the absolute imperative is translated into the command to raise the marginal imperative.”
“This absolute imperative is, over time, pared down to “don’t break linguistic presence,” and this entails bringing some repetition of the originary scene in to supplement the failing linguistic presence.”
Key texts