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“This kind of conversion of ritualism and narrative into practice and hypothesis can be designed at any scale. Addressing the center from your presumed position in relation to the center through your engagements with others opposes invoking the center on your behalf against others. This requires large scale linguistic, moral, institutional and infrastructural reconstruction. The moral and intellectual implications of installing the iterative center are immense. The only possible order is one in which Big Scenic thinking is abolished, with everyone “intuitively” seeking out maximal addressability to sample utterances, everyone engaging “spontaneously” in scenic design practices. The occupant of the center is not only beyond sacrifice but beyond distribution, which is determined by the needs of participation on one or another “team.” This corresponds to the structure of scientific thinking and practice, which always involves a conversion from some kind of “atomism,” in which reality is conceived as having a determinate number of “pieces” to a conception of the field as being organized around a centered concept that is simultaneously inside and outside of the system.”

— Adam Katz, Reconceptualizing Desire · Nov 19, 2020 · Bouvard Substack