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The Trace Odyssey puts forward a representation of the “ecosystem-trace”⁵⁶ that aims to guide the reader on familiar ground. By drawing the reader’s attention to a specific feature of the trace in context, it can help the reader to understand the ecosystem. This book shows that beyond its obvious appearance, the concept of trace is complex. This complexity must be taken into account to avoid getting lost in inappropriate interpretations.

During the explorations, in the journey through the book, concepts are discovered and the use of “tools” is learned, along with the methods associated with them. Actions, judgments and practices are situated in relation to belonging to the anthropological categorization of Homme-trace. The human being discovers that their body is continuously in contact with reality⁵⁷ and that he/she carries out at each moment an individuation of reality via signes-traces. These signs that attract a person’s attention, and the ensuing judgment, comes from a dynamic relationship between their corps-trace and the reality-trace. This is why, in the course of The Trace Odyssey , whenever we want to remind the reader of the role of traces in the emergence of the sign, the term signe-trace is preferred.

Gradually, the figuration of the trace apparatus becomes more complex until a more explicit model of the trace is possible with the objective of operationalizing concepts previously exposed.

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