DIGITAL SIGNATURES: FROM TRACES TO CODES

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
DIGITAL SIGNATURES: FROM TRACES TO CODES
Original language description
The first chapter focuses on the electronic signature as a semantically new medium that we use in our everyday lives. I claim that this technological change initiates a complex semantic transformation: in contrast with the handwritten signature, the digital signature is no longer a picture of the citizen?s name that is supposed to be drawn repeatedly by the citizen himself in the ?same? - or rather "very "similar" - way as his drawing of his specimen signature. Because the metaphysical concept of ?similarity? (and the constant aporia that it produces) can?t be defined in a logical way and understood by a computer, it is no longer a handwritten trace but an arbitrarily assigned code that is supposed to guarantee the ?authenticity? of digital signatures.Therefore, the double bind that obliges us to repeat the unrepeatable ? which Derrida described in the case of handwritten signatures ? disappears: there is no longer an aporia to be deconstructed. Finally, this paper examines Manovich?s
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GP14-14237P" target="_blank" >GP14-14237P: Deconstructing Signature : Metaphysical Dimension of Legal Mediation Politics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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