Documentality · new realism
Being is what cannot be amended; knowledge is what can. Social objects exist because they are inscribed: Object = inscribed act. From the trace to the document, the register is what turns the unamendable circumstance into durable social objects.
Gives the chain its first two links and its guardrail. The signature individuates (identity), the shared inscription constitutes the “we” (belonging). Total mobilisation and documedial capital describe what the digital does to every register.
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