Alain Claude Olivier Simon

Why Not the Ovenbird? The Minimal Obstruction of the Imaginary

Why is the ovenbird — potter and faithful, the seemingly ideal totem — absent from every Jivaro myth, as Lévi-Strauss himself noted in The Jealous Potter? This paper proposes a structural answer. From two declared commitments — every representation is Imaginary, bounded by an ina...

Why Not the Ovenbird? The Minimal Obstruction of the Imaginary

Why is the ovenbird — potter and faithful, the seemingly ideal totem — absent from every Jivaro myth, as Lévi-Strauss himself noted in The Jealous Potter? This paper proposes a structural answer. From two declared commitments — every representation is Imaginary, bounded by an ina...

The Loop That Does Not Close: Against the Idea of Substance in Economics

Economics speaks of a price level as of a water level, and of a stock of capital as of a quantity of wheat. This paper treats that language as a hypothesis and tests it. If a substance exists, its measure is a state variable; and a magnitude is a state variable only if every clos...