Field V – Technique and Rewriting
Axial Idea: Technique is not a human invention, but a continuity of the symbolic gesture outside the body. Matter that thinks learns to rewrite itself. The exteriorization of inscription is also the reorganization of the sensible and of memory — the machine becomes a supplementary body.
Theme I – The Tool As Memory
Technique is born when symbolic inscription transfers outside the flesh.
- Point 1 – The Hand As Gesture of Separation
- Point 2 – Technical Object As Archive
- Point 3 – Technique Is Not Neutrality
Theme II – Technique, Inscription, and Distance
Technique does not serve: it transforms. It is reinscription of the relationship with the world.
- Point 1 – Distance As Ontological Gesture
- Point 2 – Aesthetics of Reorganization
- Point 3 – Writing Is Inscribing Outside
Theme III – The Machine As External Body
The machine is not inhuman: it is an artificial symbolic body. Technique is duplication of the symbolic gesture.
- Point 1 – The Technical Body
- Point 2 – Technical Autonomy and Risk
- Point 3 – Technique Rewrites the Real