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14 March 2023

• 04:4304:43, 14 March 2023 diff hist +840‎ N Logocentrism ‎ Created page with "“Logocentrism” is one of Jacques Derrida’s signature concepts. For Derrida, it refers to the reduction within Western thought of writing to a direct representation of speech, which also reduced speech to the speakers “self-presence” or intentionality. For Derrida, logocentrism suppressed what is central to writing—that it involves difference and distance. To put it simply, the text can’t mean the same thing to the writer and all its readers (and the writer..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:4104:41, 14 March 2023 diff hist +592‎ N Internal Scene of Representation ‎ Created page with "The Internal Scene of Representation is a concept of Eric Gans’s that Adam Katz rejects. Gans assumes that there must be some subjective space where events are processed and decisions made. So, it would make sense to see the external scene upon which the sign is generated as replicated in an internal scene—this, in turn would support the whole vocabulary of interiority (consciousness, soul, psychology, conscience, will, and so on) that I see as products of disciplina..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:4004:40, 14 March 2023 diff hist +3,164‎ N Imperative Interrogativity ‎ Created page with "Imperative exchange is a sacrificial order: I give up something, some part of myself, and in return, the gods, God or some hypostasized concept of “society” or ‘reality” will give me something. Ultimately, this kind of order must reach its limits. Declaratives will only be able to go so far in “rationalizing” at least some of the more egregious discrepancies between what the individual gives and what the individual receives. Moreover, there is an escalatory l..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:3704:37, 14 March 2023 diff hist +1,340‎ N Imperative Gap ‎ Created page with "The Imperative Gap is the concept that there is a difference between the imperative that is issued and the one that is obeyed. No imperative can completely specify the terms of its implementation. Some discretion is necessarily left to the obedient. This is important in Originary Grammar because this concept gives us a new way of thinking about what makes a command “legitimate.” Instead of asking whether a command corresponds to some external concept of “justice”..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:3504:35, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,171‎ N Imperative Exchange ‎ Created page with "Imperative Exchange is a concept Katz derived from Gans’s analysis of early human culture, in its imperative and preliminary declarative stage, in The End of Culture. The first relation of the human group to the sacred center is ostensive, with the emergence of rituals iterating the originary event. The emergence of the imperative generates a new stage in human culture: beyond just “pointing” to the center, members of the group can issue imperatives to the center...." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:3304:33, 14 March 2023 diff hist +872‎ N Aborted Gesture of Appropriation ‎ Created page with "This is one of the founding concepts of Generative Anthropology. According to Eric Gans’s concept of the originary event, the gesture of aborted appropriation is the first sign, which is to say, the first use of language. With all of the members of a group moving and reaching towards some central object, the pre-human pecking order breaks down and, with appetite intensified by mimetic desire, a violent conflict threatening the survival of the group is imminent. One mem..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:3204:32, 14 March 2023 diff hist +1,645‎ N Fractal Hierachy ‎ Created page with "Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of “fractals” is pretty familiar by now. The simplified sense in which GA utilizes this is that the micro level reiterates (or is reiterated by) the macro level. If you zero in on a very small part of a coastline, which looks smooth from a distance, you will see patterns (articulations of angles and shapes) very similar to what is seen on the coastline as a whole. The observation that micro-relations that seem smooth and undifferentiate..." current Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2904:29, 14 March 2023 diff hist +1,027‎ Firstness ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2704:27, 14 March 2023 diff hist +972‎ N Disciplinary Space ‎ Created page with "A discipline is an academic or professional space, institutionalized and subject to some rules of entry and standards of performance, that is focused on some subject matter or area. At the origin of every discipline there must be the creation of a new attentional space. A new “object” comes into view, as one “paradigm” is replaced by another. The development of new attentional spaces into disciplines is inevitable—the attentional space, strictly speaking, wa..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2404:24, 14 March 2023 diff hist −27‎ Centered Ordinality ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2204:22, 14 March 2023 diff hist +851‎ N Centered Ordinality ‎ Created page with "“Eric Gans had seen the originary event as one in which all members of the group issued the first sign (the aborted gesture of appropriation) simultaneously. It seemed to me that this couldn’t be the case, and that if the crisis leading up to the emission of the sign was mimetically driven, the same must be the case, in reverse, so to speak, for the issuing of the sign. Someone, then, must have put forth the gesture (a kind of hesitation) first, with others subsequen..." Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2104:21, 14 March 2023 diff hist +564‎ Big Man ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:2004:20, 14 March 2023 diff hist +753‎ Attentionality ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:1904:19, 14 March 2023 diff hist +973‎ Joint Shared Attention ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:1604:16, 14 March 2023 diff hist −6‎ GA Wiki:List of GA Terms ‎ →‎All Terms Tag: Visual edit
• 04:1604:16, 14 March 2023 diff hist +7‎ GA Wiki:List of GA Terms ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:1504:15, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,103‎ Mistakenness ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 04:0504:05, 14 March 2023 diff hist +763‎ Paradox ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 03:0403:04, 14 March 2023 diff hist +1,416‎ N Sparagmos ‎ Created page with "Sparagmos is an anthropological term used to refer to the consumption of the ritual object. For Eric Gans, it is a “moment” upon the originary scene, following the initial emission of the originary sign, and then followed by the proto-ritualistic reciprocal acknowledgement of the new group, mediated by the sign. Gans has spoken of the sparagmos in terms of the release of the resentment generated by the orignary scene—the violence suppressed there is “unleashed”..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:5602:56, 14 March 2023 diff hist +1,427‎ Linguistic Presence ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 02:1002:10, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4‎ m Originary Scene ‎ Link Originary Scene to "scene" page. Tag: Visual edit