The Trace Odyssey 1: A Journey Beyond Appearances

ISBN-13: 9781786305510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Beatrice Galinon-Melenec

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Acknowledgements ixIntroduction: Establishment of the Roadmap xiChapter 1. Beyond the Triviality of the Trace 11.1. Preamble 11.2. Contact traces 31.2.1. "Corps-trace" and Locard's principle 31.2.2. Technology-assisted papillary trace reading 41.2.3. Animals, readers of the primary traces of humans 51.3. Humans, readers of traces bearing witness to the passage of animals 61.4. Technology at the service of deferred interpretation 71.4.1. Conséquences-traces of the action by the "operator" and the "spectator" 81.4.2. Punctum 81.4.3. Emotional interference in interpretation 91.4.4. Part of the invisible 101.4.5. Authentication of photographic representation 101.4.6. Automatic recording and its evidentiary value 101.5. Techne as a trace of the evolution of "Homme-Trace" 111.6. Trace visibility and invisibility 111.6.1. Questioning our current perception of reality 111.6.2. Example in the criminal domain 121.7. Digital application 131.8. The interaction between milieu, traces from the body and "corps-trace" 151.8.1. Conséquences-traces without an apparent physicality 151.8.2. Uncontrollable emersive signes-traces 161.8.3. Return of the repressed 161.8.4. Trauma traces 171.9. Conclusion: beyond the natural character of the trace 171.10. Bibliography 18Chapter 2. Gateway to the Digital World 212.1. Preamble 212.2. Role of attention 222.3. Identifying the trace 232.4. Specificity of the digital trace 242.5. Digital universe, a space designed by humans 262.6. Rules of a digital society 272.7. Capta before data 282.8. Transforming capta into data 302.9. Reading data 302.10. Risks associated with uncoupling and interpretation 312.11. Conclusion: mute data and interpretative risks 322.12. Bibliography 34Chapter 3. The Lettrure from Yesterday to Today 353.1. Preamble 353.2. From reading the heavens to the power of the cartographer 353.2.1. Ancestral rock writing 363.2.2. Power of the cartographer 373.3. Key role of the dominants interprétatifs 373.4. Algorithms behind the screen 383.5. Humans behind the algorithm 393.6. Individuation of meaning 393.7. Considering writing as a trace of an absence 403.8. Writing at the expense of the lettrure 403.9. Traduttore, traditore 423.10. Example of a chaining of conséquences-traces 433.11. Mechanisms of the ecosystem of electronic traces and digital humanities 443.12. Conclusion: role of humans in the cogs of the digital ecosystem 473.13. Bibliography 48Chapter 4. Understanding Traces with Forensic Science 534.1. Preamble 534.2. Self-learning machines and open-source software 564.2.1. Performance of self-learning machines 564.2.2. Double face of techne 574.3. Trace and forensic science 584.4. Role of circumstances in the indexing of meaning 594.5. Trace collection and indexing of meaning 604.6. Collected traces and classification inventory 624.6.1. Cases of DNA transfer 664.6.2. Technical progress to identify traces in the bodies of criminals 674.6.3. Being accountable to interpretations 674.7. Discretization and bias 684.8. Conséquences-traces of the choice of indices 704.9. The embodied semiotics of the investigator 724.10. Intrinsic embodied semiotics of each Investigator 734.11. Conclusion: of human beings, technology, and interpretation 754.12. Bibliography 78Chapter 5. A Complex Dynamic Process 815.1. Preamble 815.2. New milestone 825.3. Veiled Real 845.4. Consequences of semiotic choices 895.5. Assumptions related to the term signe-trace 935.5.1. Muteness of the trace 935.5.2. Discretization of the Real by humans 945.5.3. A human being considered as a Homme-trace 945.6. Difference between each homme-trace 965.7. Relationship with digital space 975.8. Interactions and relationships at the heart of processes 985.9. Conclusion: signes-traces and abductive reasoning 995.10. Bibliography 103Conclusion: The Ichnos-Anthropos 107Glossary 131References 135Index 147

O autorze

Beatrice Galinon-Melenec is an Emeritus Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at Normandy University Le Havre, France, and research director at the CNRS-IDEES 6266 laboratory. She founded and co-directs the e-Laboratory on Human Trace in the UniTwin UNESCO Complex Systems Digital Campus.