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July 2026
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Deferral and Appropriation; Property and the Center
“Center Study has no political theology, because what would be political theology is retracted into anthropology and anthropology is retracted into anthropomorphics, the constitution of the human…”
The Theseus Ship Anti-Revolution
“A kind of rigor of thought and action can be derived from creating the paradox of wanting complete transformation of all social institutions but not only without revolution but without anyone…”
April 2026
Trails of Attentionality
“We are always on a scene, but any scene is at the intersection of any number of other scenes, and we can describe this fairly precisely and embed it consequentially in idioms. The problems of time…”
Bouvard on Institutional Change and Collective Interest
“When you're waiting for that massive ocean liner to turn around and head in the direction you've been looking at for a long time sometimes you just need to be patient and wait until enough middle…”
Bouvard on SPLC Trial and Left Criminality
“The SPLC trial will be interesting. It seems the charges involve fraud and money laundering, so who was defrauded and what illegal enterprises generated the laudnered money? The line between…”
Bouvard on Beauty, Possession, and Mimetic Desire
“Loomer is asking questions. Is she *just* asking questions? I'm not sure. @slooperbia50068 Which questions were those? @slooperbia50068 This is not something anyone simply decides. "Possession" of…”
Style: Markers and Measurements of Deferral
“Style is a fundamentally mimetic concept. At the origin of any style is the performance of a role. Roles are ultimately ritual performances: certain gestures and utterances are commanded by the…”
Bouvard on Trump's Successor and Political Continuity
“Assuming Trump is seen as having had a successful presidency towards the end of his term, his most likely successor will be whoever can most convincingly defend and promise to continue what he has…”
Bouvard on Antisemitic Dog-Whistling and Right-Wing Complicity
“Tucker Carlson's (First World) fans have been peeling away, one by one, but let's go back to the beginning, to the mindset that led us here. It would go something like this: "So, he's taunting the…”
Bouvard on Trump's Iran Grievance and Dollar Politics
“For Trump, Iran may be unfinished business from the 80s, maybe even from the Embassy takeover. Why shouldn't Trump hold a much more valid and widely shared grudge as tenaciously as those who complain…”
Bouvard on Computational Language Replacing Psychological Interiority
“I think the language of computation will replace the languages of interiority based on print culture used to describe human feeling and thinking--so, I expect "latent space" to replace "unconscious"…”
Bouvard on Republican Israel Policy and Trump's Legacy
“If the next president is a Republican and he wants to turn on Israel he would also have to repudiate Trump rather forcefully--but it will be tough to repudiate Trump on this single point alone and…”
March 2026
Perfecting the Imperative and Imperative Exchange: Originary FinTech
“I have been using “perfecting the imperative” as an idiom for technology for a while now and have started to pursue it further in some recent posts, in part by refining it through the concept of…”
Bouvard on Jewish Power and Anti-Discrimination Framework
“Jews should unburden themselves of both the faith in a general agreement of what “antisemitism” is and that it is bad along with the broader anti-discrimination framework within which that faith is…”
Bouvard on Appeasement and Far-Right Antisemitism
“Making conciliatory gestures to groypers and Tucker Carlson fans gets you a campaign against your Jewish chief of staff. You invite them to up the ante and demand signs of fealty. Anyone who doesn't…”
Bouvard on Institutional Integration of Right-Wing Youth
“The solution to the right wing zoomers going Nazi problem is to create millions of positions in and around law enforcement and defense (*not* think tanks and the GOP) which provide experience,…”
Bouvard on Post-October 7 Pro-Palestine Conversions
“All those who suddenly reversed their long-held positions on Israel, Zionism, and Jews post October 7 should be viewed as essentially pod people. @slooperbia50068 Are you familiar with The Invasion…”
Bouvard on Antisemitism Within MAGA Movement
“Forget about dissociating from Tucker Carlson; if podcastan could have stated explicitly that Candace Owens was persona non grata in any movement they were part of because of her bizarre blood libels…”
Bouvard on Anti-Semitic Delegitimization of Jewish Conservatives
“I think both Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are Reaganites, which means they haven't internalized the Trump shift toward redesigning sovereignty, but the calculated attacks on them by the Duginite (?)…”
Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah
“The question of speech or, to evoke post-structuralism, the sayable, is now to be pursued more thoroughly on the terrain of the expectant scene, credit and originary grammar. Obviously free speech…”
Bouvard on Carlson's Strategic Alignment with Iran
“Tucker Carlson has been very deliberately backing his supporters into a corner with him and now we will see who is willing to box themselves in all the way. He has made it virtually impossible to…”
Bouvard on Regime-People Distinction Politics
“One neocon innovation (which was borrowed and enhanced from "anti-totalitarianism") which almost everyone has adopted is a scrupulous distinction between regimes and peoples. No Brit would have said…”
Bouvard on Anti-Israel Activism as Performative Meta-Ops
“The anti-Israel firsters have a carefully constructed op predicated on accusing their opponents of being ops. Every new organization should have the word "op" in it, to signal awareness that all is…”
Bouvard on Trump's Transformative Threat to Republicans
“Sundance's (of the Conservative Treehouse) statement (I can't find it and am going by memory) that "Trump is our murder weapon" (with the "victim" being the Republican party) may turn out to be true.…”
Bouvard on Vance and Constitutional Equal Protection
“It's reasonable to assume that a candidate who relies on the votes of Carlson slander enjoyers will refrain, in office, from protecting those victimized by others those slander enjoyers enjoy. That…”
Bouvard on Vance's Vulnerability in Republican Primary
“Maybe on some level those pounding the Vance inevitability drum have been aware of what a weak candidate he might turn out to be if challenged, both in the primaries and the general, so that his only…”
Bouvard on Anti-Israel Movement's Performative Authenticity
“Part of the reason for the momentum the anti-Israel firsters picked up is that they radicalized the method of always claiming your opponent is an "op" while simultaneously being completely aware of…”
Bouvard on Vance, Carlson, and Republican Direction
“Very interestng and for me encourgaing (despite my own reservations about Rubio) but I don't know why the headline attributes the change to the Iran war. Of course, I should always add "if true."…”