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This text proposes a radical reformulation of contemporary ontology through the
concept of inscription as a material and symbolic operation that stabilizes differences under
local conditions. Rejecting the classical dualism between matter and thought, as well as the
transcendental residues present in various philosophical traditions, the text affirms the
Ontology of Emerging Complexity (OEC) as an operative regime of immanent intelligibility.
Inscription is presented as an ontogenetic gesture that does not reveal essences, but
reorganizes material instabilities into legible marks, implying energetic cost, finitude, and
ethical responsibility.
Quantum measurement is analysed as an exemplary onto-epistemic paradigm, in
which subject-function, object-function, and apparatus are co-produced in the stabilization
of traces. Epistemology ceases to be representational and becomes an intervening practice,
while truth is reconceptualized as operative consistency. In this horizon, philosophy
abandons the contemplation of essences and assumes itself as co-inscription: a situated
practice of symbolic reorganization of the real.
Finitude emerges as the affirmative condition of inscription, founding an ethics of
emergence based on material listening, responsibility for the gesture, and cohabitation with
the variability of the real. Inscription is also technogenesis, implying that language,
consciousness, and intelligence are material regimes of symbolic differentiation. The chapter
culminates in the affirmation of philosophy as an aesthetic and ethical intervention in the
regimes of legibility, where to think is to inscribe — and to inscribe is to share the
responsibility for the emergence of possible worlds.
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Title The Inscription as Ontogenesis - Finitude, Emergence and the Philosophical Gesture: a Quantum Example
This text proposes a radical reformulation of contemporary ontology through the
concept of inscription as a material and symbolic operation that stabilizes differences under
local conditions. Rejecting the classical dualism between matter and thought, as well as the
transcendental residues present in various philosophical traditions, the text affirms the
Ontology of Emerging Complexity (OEC) as an operative regime of immanent intelligibility.
Inscription is presented as an ontogenetic gesture that does not reveal essences, but
reorganizes material instabilities into legible marks, implying energetic cost, finitude, and
ethical responsibility.
Quantum measurement is analysed as an exemplary onto-epistemic paradigm, in
which subject-function, object-function, and apparatus are co-produced in the stabilization
of traces. Epistemology ceases to be representational and becomes an intervening practice,
while truth is reconceptualized as operative consistency. In this horizon, philosophy
abandons the contemplation of essences and assumes itself as co-inscription: a situated
practice of symbolic reorganization of the real.
Finitude emerges as the affirmative condition of inscription, founding an ethics of
emergence based on material listening, responsibility for the gesture, and cohabitation with
the variability of the real. Inscription is also technogenesis, implying that language,
consciousness, and intelligence are material regimes of symbolic differentiation. The chapter
culminates in the affirmation of philosophy as an aesthetic and ethical intervention in the
regimes of legibility, where to think is to inscribe — and to inscribe is to share the
responsibility for the emergence of possible worlds.
Work type Literary: Other
Tags genealogy, emergence, symbolic reinscription, ontology of complexity, origin, normative exclusion
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