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“Center study assumes that any tracing of any idiom to its possibility and emergence will lead us back to the originary hypothesis, while anthropomorphics assumes that the originary hypothesis can only find its proof of work and concept in the jarring of an idiom. Anthropomorphics, then, is not so interested in reducing or explaining, metalanguage like, any discourse to the abstract concepts developed in the center study factory as in infiltrating other discourses and having them approximate or become successor discourses to the originary sign. If we were all deliberately replicating the originary event in every utterance we’d all be speaking in constantly novel ways that would need to be apprehended in the stream of things, and this is what the concept of anthropomorphics is indicating.”

— Adam Katz, Idiom and the differend · Mar 01, 2026 · Bouvard Substack