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“In a sense I would argue for a very "reactionary" position insofar as we are ultimately modeling our praxis on the originary scene and its dialectic with the Big Man revelation. So, we're taking as our lodestone very ancient social formations, to which we want to conform our practices. But it's not "reactionary" insofar as these are generative scenes in a dialectic with each other, and therefore open-ended. There are scenes which have an "object" at the center, and we want to clear everyone away from the center so that we can all look at and "report back" on what we see--and I mean "object" in a very general sense, included concepts, institutions, other disciplines, etc. There is leadership on such a scene, but it's geared toward showing something new about the object--whoever does that is in charge for as long as he needs in order to show it. What is involved in constructing such scenes, what objects are set at the center--this is all historically specific--these questions are themselves "objects" on other scenes. Scenes on which a human occupies the center must be formalized, or named, much more explicitly. The main job of the person in charge is putting other people in charge of the different parts of the job. And so on horizontally across all domains of social life and vertically from top to bottom.”

— Adam Katz, Bouvard on Originary Scene and Big Man Dialectic · Mar 30, 2019 · Reddit