Law, Normativity, and the Writing. Oracle Night and Human Indeterminacy

Abstract

Both legal and technological normativity may be understood as a set of constraining affordances, that is, constraints that both delimit and afford a range of possibilities. Those constraining affordances can be either semantic (legal normativity) or operational (technological normativity). So, the issue at stake is how such constraining affordances deal with the crucial question of human indeterminacy: namely, how the construction of knowledge that mediates between us and the world leaves room for a behavior understood as a creative response to the constraints of either legal or technological normativity. The aim of the paper is to investigate the conditions of possibility of this creative response, which entails a self-construction, whose narration we cannot, however, entirely accomplish by ourselves: it depends on the relation with the others and with the fundamental freedom of self-expression and circulation of information.