Trace Factory

Cover......Page 1
Half-Title Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction: Questioning the Evidence......Page 11
1. The Mediatized Trace of the Social World, the Object of Research......Page 17
 1.1. There are traces and traces......Page 19
  1.1.1. The avatars of a trace of use......Page 20
  1.1.2. Metamorphoses of the trace......Page 24
  1.1.3. Mediation, mediatization, device......Page 26
  1.2.1. From book to reading......Page 28
  1.2.2. A constellation of categories......Page 31
  1.2.3. Structural difficulties......Page 34
 1.3. Relevance and efficiency......Page 37
  1.3.1. The evasive relevance of the trace......Page 38
  1.3.2. An efficient figure of relevance......Page 39
  1.3.3. Trace as an interpretative schema......Page 41
2. The Schema of the Trace, a Paradoxical Semiotics......Page 47
  2.1.1. The concept of index and semiotic theory......Page 51
  2.1.2. The index as a commonplace category......Page 55
  2.1.3. The production of indexicality......Page 58
  2.1.4. Assessment: a problematic legacy......Page 62
 2.2. The trace, appearance and presence of the past in the present......Page 63
  2.2.1. The photographic scene, here, now and in the past......Page 66
  2.2.2. The theoretical issue of Barthes’ analysis......Page 70
  2.3.1. Photography as a commonplace archetype......Page 72
  2.3.2. From the trace schema to the deployment of devices......Page 76
  2.3.3. Photography as a pretext......Page 78
 2.4. The mediatized trace, a complex info-communication device......Page 85
  2.4.1. Device......Page 87
  2.4.2. Text......Page 89
  2.4.3. Representation......Page 93
  2.4.4. Competence......Page 97
  2.4.5. Format......Page 100
3. The Complex Genesis of the Written Trace......Page 103
 3.1. The available inscription......Page 107
  3.1.1. Inscription as a framework for thought......Page 108
  3.1.2. Grammatology or philosophy in the camera obscura......Page 111
  3.1.3. Ichnology as radical logistics......Page 113
 3.2. The thickness of the traced-out......Page 119
  3.2.1. Actualized presentification in absentia......Page 120
  3.2.2. Between inscription device and graphic gesture......Page 122
  3.2.3. The traced-out feature, a figure of mediation......Page 124
 3.3. It has been… written......Page 130
  3.3.1. Signature, a social act between identification and authentication......Page 132
  3.3.2. Genetic criticism in the context of the trace/traced-out couple......Page 135
 3.4. The written trace as an institutional fact......Page 146
  3.4.1. The written trace, a scientific assumption......Page 147
  3.4.2. The written trace, a device of social knowledge power......Page 157
  3.4.3. The written trace, an educational mediation......Page 161
4. The Emerging Trace of the Media Text......Page 167
 4.1. The poetics of Mnemosyne: media forms and social memory......Page 170
  4.1.1. A mediatized space of thought......Page 173
  4.1.2. The trace schema questionned by the atlas of forms......Page 180
  4.1.3. The poetics of Mnemosyne at work in media analysis......Page 187
 4.2. Indexical reading of media texts......Page 199
  4.2.1. The textual witness as a ferment......Page 200
  4.2.2. The “index paradigm”, from its commonplace life to its heuristic scope......Page 205
  4.2.3. Quotations, from second hand to guestimates......Page 218
 4.3. Writing in the future perfect......Page 229
  4.3.1. Mnemosyne struggling with Lethe......Page 233
  4.3.2. Changes in authority, economy of writings and media genesis of traces......Page 238
  4.3.3. Memorial writing in devices......Page 244
Conclusion: It has been. It is here. It will give......Page 247
References......Page 257
Index......Page 275
Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies......Page 281
EULA......Page 287