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“I think I'm accounting for desire through what I am calling the "imperative exchange," for which I am also very dependent upon that same E of C. Desire is both socially constructive and socially constructed--we can't treat it as "natural" and "spontaneous" any more than we can treat it as epiphenomenal or mere symptom. The way to take this into account is to situate it within language, especially the imperative, the most transparent linguistic expression of desire. Through the imperative exchange, we can see any particular desire in a chain of desire (our imperatives are extensions of those issued to us), along with the demystification of desire (but also its enshrinement) in the declarative.”

— Adam Katz, Bouvard on Primitive Cognition and Category Formation · Nov 13, 2017 · Reddit