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“I always want to compress the results of new inquiries into new idioms so as to continue to flood the scene with center study idioms because your thinking is not radical if it’s not creating a new language more compelling than the ones people are already speaking. How, then, to encompass recent inquiries into credit, the perfection of the imperative through imperative exchange and originary grammar, and the disciplinary, which, admittedly, I have not addressed for a while. Center study is held together by a sufficiently small number of concepts—along with the above, we have nomos and the juridical and surely a couple of others I’m forgetting now. Creating new idioms involves using one of the concepts as a platform for the others—this is itself technological and a kind of stacking. I want to center the imperative, in particular perfecting the imperative and imperative exchange, since that has been the object of the most significant recent theoretical development. The imperative follows from an inappropriate ostensive and it gets extended and ramified the more out of reach that ostensive remains or becomes and the greater the risk of initiating confrontation over the failure to produce the mentioned item. This will most closely describe ritual scenes, where something is needed to complete the scene, maybe something intangible, ineffable or transient, like the “willing” participation of one or more of the members.”

— Adam Katz, Promise, Fraud, the Options on the Imperative, Messiah · Mar 15, 2026 · Bouvard Substack