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Center Study branches off from René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and Eric Gans’s Generative Anthropology to create a new discipline grounded in the Originary Hypothesis: the hypothetical origin of humanity in the deferral of violence via representation (language).
If you read one thing
GABlog · Adam Katz
The Discourse of the Center
“We are beings bound to the center.” The clearest single-post statement of the core claim.
…or the four essays to begin with →
01Origin and HypothesisAnthropomorphicsThe founding move, stated plainly: how the aborted gesture becomes the first sign.02The Use of a CenterAnthropomorphicsWhat a center is — and why every social scene has one.03The Prospects of the HypothesisSubstackWhat the hypothesis can actually do, from individual desire to geopolitics.04There Is No Economy but Only the Debt to the CenterAnthropoeticsThe framework applied end to end: money read as the debt to the center.
Or just ask
Put any question to the whole corpus — you get a synthesized answer grounded in direct quotes.
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