Abstract

The essay starts from the question of the debated origins of writing to advance the hypothesis of an intrinsically multiple constitution of this operational practice which is expressed in the plurality of interpretations that determine its twentieth-century philosophical reading. The main thesis of the contribution is the idea of an inescapability of the technical-material dimension of writing practice to understand its own philosophical reception and its role, in the form of what we propose to call architraceality, at the origin of significant and symbolic practices human