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“What I have been calling the partitioning and parceling out of the imperative of the center is not so much resisted as raveled up by creating knowledge of use to cases in stacked scenes that keeps pushing cases asymptotically to their self-abolishing limits. That is, we place the juridical at the center—the juridical is the form taken for the settling of resentments and since it has become the indispensable form for doing so it has also provided the language in which resentments are formulated and felt. Resentments themselves indicate a disparity in obedience to the imperative of the center, which we can now speak about in terms of a violation of the nomos, or originary distribution. Resentment is when one’s own effort in sustaining presence is not matched by others, who nevertheless remain on the scene. The juridical relies on knowledge—every form of knowledge, humanistic as well and physical—in order to answer the demands made and questions raised by the disputing parties satisfactorily. This implies the maintenance of institutions dedicated to the production and preservation of such knowledge. The settling of a case involves an adjustment of the nomos, a re-establishment of boundaries, including by removing the offender from the community so as to prevent further violation of those boundaries.”

— Adam Katz, The Same Sentence · May 09, 2024 · Bouvard Substack