The Trace Odyssey 1. Beatrice Galinon-Melenec

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      Figure I.7. Roadmap for exploring the digital ecosystem (enlarged versions are illustrated in the rest of the book). (1) See definition in I.15 and Glossary. For a color version of this figure, see www.iste.co.uk/galinonmelenec/traceodyssey.zip

I.17. Conclusion: The Trace Odyssey 1, roadmap

      The Trace Odyssey relates the explorations of a 21st Century human being who, because the term trace is now used in many contexts and with very diverse intentions of meaning, and because she does not find answers to her questions in commonly used dictionaries, decided to set out to discover what the term “trace” covers and what distinguishes it from its purported synonyms.

      In the course of her observations, the researcher understands that not only is the trace more complex than she had anticipated, but also, that she is a homme-trace, an Ichnos-Anthropos. The researcher then takes a new look at the concept of traces encountered in everyday life (see Chapter 1), which leads her to analyze the processes that produce them and to examine their impact(s) on the rules of digital society (see Chapter 2). Along the way, the researcher discovers new terms (corps-trace, signe-trace, anthropocentric-trace, traced processes) and older terms with contextualized use (artifact, différance⁵⁸, enaction, lettrure, habitus, hypomnemata⁵⁹, etc.) that enable her to enrich a vocabulary previously confined to practical life. The researcher’s interest in police investigations led her to further discoveries by testing the concepts in the search for the perpetrator of a crime. The researcher’s performance as an investigator proved to be disappointing in the eyes of the detectives who fed her imagination. The researcher then concluded that her rationality was limited and that her experience did not provide the keys of an appropriate embodied semiotics. Given this state of affairs, the researcher then joined forces with other thinkers to create a “collective intelligence” (see Chapters 4 and 5).

      In summary, the trace perceived by a human being appears to be anthropocentric, in the sense that it results from relational processes between homme-trace/milieu-trace/environment-trace. A person, thus united to the world and to the complexity of the systems in which he/she is inserted, is invited to integrate this dimension of reliance⁶⁰ in order to ensure responsible actions and ethical choices (see Chapter 6).

One of the systems whose construction is analyzed step by step – in Chapter 2 – is presented under the heading “Figuration of the ecosystem trace apparatus”⁶¹. Its objective is to show how:

      The concept of homme-trace is then repositioned – in Chapter 3 – within the framework of cybersecurity, involving institutions, legal regulations and the management of online activities.

      The anthropological turning point proposed in The Trace Odyssey 1⁶², in analyzing the uses of digital technology and their consequences, appears to be all the more necessary, given that just as research applications in artificial intelligence (AI) are taking off, humans appear to forget that self-learning and autonomous machines are the result of their own creation.

      Together with the study of the processes of the digital society and the analyses of the different trace systems, a new thinking emerges, positing fundamentals such as:

After the presentation of having placed some useful benchmarks to locate oneself in The Trace Odyssey 1, the first step is to discover the processes at work behind the everyday experience of a trace. This is the subject of Chapter 1.

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