Being and memory by Pierre levy, University of Montreal
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The first challenge of this article is to relocate the object of the human sciences (culture and symbolic significance) in continuity with the objects of the natural sciences. I hypothesize that the meaning does not appear suddenly in humanity, but that different layers of coding and memory (quantum, atomic, genetic, nervous and symbolic) accumulate and become progressively more complex, with the symbolic layer being the most recent the "writing machines".
The second challenge of the text is to define the specificity and unity of the symbolic layer and, therefore, the field of human sciences. In contrast to a certain logocentric tradition, I propose that symbolism, while obviously including language, also encompasses other semiotics (such as cuisine or music) where the meaning / meaning rupture is not as relevant as for languages. The third challenge of this essay is to show that cultural forms and the interpretative faculties of humanity evolve with their writing machines. The emergence of digital, in particular, suggests a refinement of the human sciences and reaches the calculation of semantic complexity. This attempt to redefine the human sciences in continuity with the natural sciences presupposes an ontology, or a metaontology, in the words of Marcello Vitali-Rosati, for whom the notions of writing and memory are fundamental and which, in rupture with Kantian criticism, accept the full reality of spatiality and natural temporality.
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