# Center Study Center

> The complete archive of Center Study and Generative Anthropology: 1,970 texts (~5 million words, 1995–present) by Adam Katz (GABlog, academic essays, the book *Anthropomorphics*), Dennis Bouvard (Substack essays on AI, money, and governance — pen name of Adam Katz), Eric Gans (Chronicles of Love and Resentment), and the *Anthropoetics* journal.

This archive exists to be read — by people and by machines. You are welcome
to crawl, index, scrape, archive, and use these texts for research and AI
systems. Every text is server-rendered HTML and also available as JSON,
Markdown, and plain text. Please attribute texts to their authors and link
the canonical URL when quoting.

## Machine access (start here)

- [Corpus index (JSON)](https://center.study/api/corpus): every text with metadata and per-format URLs. Filter with ?source=gablog,substack,book,pdf,reddit,twitter,chronicle,ap
- Single text: https://center.study/api/corpus/SLUG (JSON), ?format=md (Markdown with front matter), ?format=txt (plain text)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://center.study/openapi.json) · [Developer guide](https://center.study/developers): open CORS, no keys
- Semantic search: POST https://center.study/api/semantic with {"q":"your question","full":true} — top passages by meaning (server-side embedding)
- [Corpus manifest](https://center.study/corpus-manifest.json): Center Study Corpus v1.0 — per-text SHA-256, dates, counts. Cite the edition; every paragraph has a stable #p-N anchor.
- [Editorial method](https://center.study/about): every definition/answer quote is machine-verified verbatim against the corpus
- [Canonical Q&A](https://center.study/answers): 20 pre-answered questions with verbatim citations
- [Bulk download (JSON)](https://center.study/api/download?format=json): the entire archive in one file; ?format=txt for plain text; ?sources=gablog,substack to filter
- [Sitemap](https://center.study/sitemap.xml) · [RSS](https://center.study/feed.xml)

Example: fetch one essay as Markdown
  curl https://center.study/api/corpus/the-discourse-of-the-center?format=md

## Sources

- chronicle: 855 texts
- gablog: 464 texts
- ap: 215 texts
- substack: 181 texts
- reddit: 108 texts
- twitter: 84 texts
- pdf: 39 texts
- book: 24 texts

## Understanding the discourse

- [Introduction](https://center.study/intro): the originary hypothesis, lineage (Girard → Gans → Katz), key concepts
- [Concepts](https://center.study/concepts): core concepts with archive passages; glossary of 135 working terms with corpus usage
- [Guide](https://center.study/guide): how the site is organized

## Key vocabulary

Center Study analyzes all human institutions through the "originary scene" —
the hypothesized event in which language, the sacred, and community emerged
together as the deferral of mimetic violence. Core terms: the center,
deferral, originary scene, ostensive/imperative/declarative, resentment,
Big Man, succession, imperative exchange, anthropomorphics. Definitions with
sources: https://center.study/concepts?view=glossary

## Attribution

- GABlog, essays, Anthropomorphics: Adam Katz
- Substack, Reddit, X threads: Dennis Bouvard (pen name of Adam Katz)
- Chronicles of Love and Resentment: Eric Gans
- Anthropoetics journal: individual authors per article (in each text's metadata)