maurizio ferraris: philosophy & technology of documentality
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Documentality vs. Intentionality
Intentionality: X counts as Y in C
Documentality: Object = Inscribed Act
Documentality vs. Intentionality
Intentionality: X counts as Y in C
Documentality: Object = Inscribed Act
CI: does it explain the whole of social reality?
IC: where is it?
Individual Intentionality Collective Intentionality
Documentality vs. Intentionality
Intentionality: X counts as Y in C
Documentality: Object = Inscribed Act
In France, every year, around 10 posthumous marriages are celebrated.
Marriage between people with Alzheimer’s disease.
If there is writing, you can marry a dead person. If there is no writing, you cannot marry a living one.
Documentality
Object = Inscribed ActSocial objects are the result of social acts
(concerning at least two persons), characterized by the fact of being inscribed, in a document, in a computer file, or in the form of memory traces in people’s heads.
Genghini’s questions
Recording (writing/orality)
Institution (physis/nomos)
Decision (regulative/constitutive)
Digitalization (analogical/digital)
Genghini’s questions
Recording (writing/orality)
Institution (physis/nomos)
Decision (regulative/constitutive)
Digitalization (analogical/digital)
Explosion of Writing
Explosion of Recording
Genghini’s questions
Recording (writing/orality)
Institution (physis/nomos)
Decision (regulative/constitutive)
Digitalization (analogical/digital)
Tabula
Mobilization
Genghini’s questions
Recording (writing/orality)
Institution (physis/nomos)
Decision (regulative/constitutive)
Digitalization (analogical/digital)
Recording and responsibility
Constitutive rules
The intentionality of playing chess comes from the rules of chess
Intentionality comes from Documentality
Genghini’s questions
Recording (writing/orality)
Institution (physis/nomos)
Decision (regulative/constitutive)
Digitalization (analogical/digital)
Secret 1
Secret 2
Amnesy International