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“Here is where an anthropomorphic theory of technoscience as applied anthropomorphics can train our thinking most powerfully. Every question, indeed, every uncertainty, shock of surprise, or aroused curiosity, can be traced back to some chain of imperatives that has confronted the questioner, but that has origins that can be traced back to the usurpation of the center and the more recent thoroughgoing desecration of the occupied center. It is ultimately a command that everyone be at their posts and contribute to some future iteration of the occupant of the center what can no longer be contributed directly to the present occupant of the center. Desecration is simultaneously advanced and repaired through the creation of new rituals of succession that reference, break down, and micro-imperativize the imperative order—what I have referred to previously as the treatment of technology as the creation of pedagogical platforms. Scene-stacking is equally a social and technological set of practices.”

— Adam Katz, Perfecting the Imperative · Jun 21, 2023 · Bouvard Substack