Term
Imperativity
used in 16 texts across the archive
“This progressive relation to the center is what I have been calling “imperative culture,” or the “imperative order,” or “imperativity.” The center issues commands, commands with their origins in the injunction to suspend appropriation of the object on the originary scene; the participants on any cultural scene make requests of the center.”
In use
“Within interrogative imperativity, declaratives take on a far wider scope, that of converting possible (and impossible) imperative exchanges into a rule or constraint for deferring “analogous” imperative exchanges.”
“The para and the infra are the forms of imperativity, telling you what texts you must take as models, how to take them as models, how to use those models to work through some particular content or materials, and how to read texts as instantiations or modifications of those models.”
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