Originary Hypothesizing

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If markets are made, they can be made in more deliberate and constrained ways; if they can be made increasingly constrained and purposeful, they will in…
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Dennis Bouvard
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The Contingency of the Hypothesis
I have just read A Critique of Natural Language: Human Being: The Species that Begat Itself a Future, by Willem Ernst van der Roest. I did so because…
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Centrifugal Signifying
The participants in the event are critically concerned with avoiding conflict. The equal production of the sign and the subsequent equal division of the…
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August 2023
Idioms as Operationalized Samples
Any act of signification aims at changing the field of probabilities within which it is situated. I’m working with the assumption that the traditional…
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Dennis Bouvard
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Designing Idioms for Data Treatment
I’ll return to my “ergodic hypothesis” and assume, contra “grammaticalist” assumptions regarding the endless possibilities of uttering new sentences…
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Presence and Intention in Sampling as Currency
Idioms as samples and samples as currency: that’s the marker I’m going to lay down here. Currency can certainly be organized around bets on the future…
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Dennis Bouvard
July 2023
The Sample as Our Donation to the Center
Sometimes the Online Etymological dictionary is worth working through carefully. I’ve been centering the word “sample” for a while now, using it…
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The Longest, Most Convoluted, Revised and Thickly Imagined Title Deed Possible
Needless to say, the title refers to the Hebrew bible, about which I will now proceed to speak in highly hypothetical, but hopefully generative, terms…
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The Scene is the Same
A theoretical claim I have been making since I’ve taken up the originary hypothesis is that the originary scene has never closed. In other words, if we…
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Dennis Bouvard
June 2023
Perfecting the Imperative
I’d like, here, to think through more thoroughly than I have so far the problem of identifying technology with the imperatives and doing so within the…
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Idiomatic Intelligence and the Black Box
A while ago, partly because my reading of Peirce got me interested in probability and knowledge, and partly because my work as a college writing…
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Techno-Grammar
As Brian Roemelle points out, at the center of technology now is prompt engineering, which is essentially the designing of search terms that would…
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