maurizio ferraris: philosophy & technology of documentality

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

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