Center

The center is both the cause and the product of the sign. It is a locus of attention and imperative exchange. It is an agency (that human agency is modeled on) that can issue imperatives and of which requests an be made.

Origin

The center is the agency on the originary scene that prohibits the hominids on the periphery from appropriating the central object. The originary sign is an ostensive sign that designates this center. The center-periphery or center-margin relationship that is constitutive of every scene is modeled on this first hierarchy between the signified center and the hominid signifiers.

Characteristics

The center is both inside the scene and outside the scene.

The center distributes.

The center is paradoxical.

The center is the origin of the community.

The center contains the collective signifying capacities of the community.

References

http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2402/2402katz/+http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw579/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2006/06/ga-as-the-thinking-of-the-center/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2019/01/how-does-the-center-speak/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/12/distribution-from-the-center/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/06/on-the-use-of-the-center-margin-model-to-displace-the-left-right-model/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/05/center-and-centrality/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/05/center-alignment/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/05/the-architecture-of-the-center/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/04/the-discourse-of-the-center/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2018/03/centerism/

http://gablog.cdh.ucla.edu/2019/06/center-and-origin-the-name-of-the-center-and-centered-names/