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“I don’t see language in general as technics, but literature turns language into a model of technics insofar as it displays the way in which in language, in this way just as in technics, the implicit preconditions of an explicit practice either present themselves or are elicited as an interruption of that practice. So, literature that continually exposes the devices and narrates its own coming into being to the point where that coming into being is a hypothesis shared by writer and readers, models the designed participation in design that constitutes an idiomatic intelligence that must deliberately and explicitly see to its own continuity. I’ll call this kind of literature “fic-tech-tion,” which we might see as a kind of meta-programming. Alongside the meta-programming of fic-tech-tion, everything is design, because everything is scenes, and what we do on scenes is design them so actors on those scenes can design new scenes, meta-scenes, sub-scenes, and so on. All of technology, including the most “technological” (automation, engines, robots, algorithms, etc.) are part of scenic design, and the principle of scenic design, again, is to issue delayed imperatives through a relay of imperatives so that the final imperative should always be to perfect a practice predicated upon singularized succession in perpetuity. The model I propose for design is the derivation of architecture from archaeology, or, archae-tecture.”

— Adam Katz, Fict-tech-tion; Archae-tecture · Apr 29, 2021 · Bouvard Substack