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Ethnocentrism (n.) at its most prescientific refuses a people the name of writing, and so refuses them the name of man.
The Hand (n.) was slowly freed from manual grasping so that the voice could speak and the glance and the hand could write.
The Mythogram (n.) spells its symbols pluri-dimensionally, so its meaning is not subjected to successivity or to the irreversible temporality of sound.
A Program (n.) is a cybernetic notion through which the unity of man is placed in a history of the trace.
Writing (n.) is not fortuitous: it arrives with metal and slavery, and the moment hierarchy is affirmed it builds its first genealogists.
Writing (n.) seems likely to vanish as linear inscription, replaced by dictaphones, and will slip into the infrastructure without changing how intelligence works.
Writing (n.) is the one-dimensional instrument out of which philosophy and science grew, and the same thing that holds thought in typographical channels.