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“I was prompted to do so, in part, by reading Raphael Gross’s Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust and German Legal Theory (a very good book, by the way), where I noticed that the Christian concept of the “Katechon,” or the restrainer of the AntiChrist, was a very near synonym to “deferral.” This makes it possible to further extend center study into new fields of inquiry, in this case not only Schmitt, but Peter Thiel’s studies of apocalypse, which makes regular use of this theological framing of politics. (While I have been familiar with the Katechon for some time, I think what jarred me into taking it more seriously was a point in Gross’s discussion where he uses the word “deferral” in describing Schmitt’s understanding of the term, and something clicked.)”

— Adam Katz, Tokenizing Deferrality · May 1, 2025 · Bouvard Substack