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By comparing the basic rules of physics with the dynamics of social fields, we can put forward interesting hypotheses that explore: when constructing modes of social links between humans, the interpretations of human-traces interact with each other. Some become attracted to each other and are likely to come together in order to shape fields whose:

 – limits are defined by the interpretations they repel and reject; and whose

 – internal interactions give rise to specific operating rules with an objective to protect the field and the place of those who initiated the rules.

Here we find the constitution of social fields, as described by Bourdieu (1989) in his book Distinction.

In The Trace Odyssey 1, we note that the conséquences-traces of these interactions can be found at all scales of the field, such as social “practices” (including those related to the use of digital technology) and “communicating” behaviors (Galinon-Mélénec and Martin-Juchat 2008) of what we call “corps-traces”.

Interactions between fields are likely to produce their evolution at the margin, then their transformation. The evolution of these fields bears the trace of the forces at work. Some develop more rapidly than others, resulting in an increase in the mass of people who share a certain point of view (Boltanski et al. 1971):

 – on the one hand, a mass of great importance – which we shall name A – produces an energy that may seem sufficient to impose its point of view on other fields. In this category, we could place the mass of interactions that are consolidated from an economic, financial and market point of view considered as dominant (ibid.); and

 – on the other hand, there are masses positioned at the margin whose weight is less than that of A but they release a high kinetic energy. We name them B.

However, B, despite its smaller size, can count on its high kinetic energy to eventually succeed in changing the rules of the game initially established by A and produce a reorganization of the whole in favor of the rules (values, group points of view) that guide B’s action.

The traceable conséquences-traces of the process (which can be more or less violent) that led to this change are still visible in the new field. This is what leads us to insist on the role of the process that generates the trace. In this case the “perceived process” (Galinon-Mélénec 2011) produces the form that the traces of A’s points of view take in the new constituted field.

In the rest of the book, we apply this concept to different domains. What a human being interprets at an instant t bears the traces of the interaction between two dynamic processes. The process that built its gaze (its individual-social genesis) and the process that produced what it is looking at.

NOTE.– The project that underpins The Trace Odyssey 1 provides examples that show that it is possible to deconstruct the formation of individual and social viewpoints by focusing on processus traçuels⁴⁰ of which they are the conséquences-traces.