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“The reliance of any utterance on the possibility of a verifying ostensive somewhere down the road is what makes language irreducibly performative (and therefore demands that performativity be made explicit and central) but the imperative amplifies and activates that performativity and makes it technological.”

— Adam Katz, Downstream of the Imperative · Jul 7, 2024 · Bouvard Substack