Space as Basis to François Dagognet’s Neo-Epistemology

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to demostrate that the neo-epistemology of Francois Dagognet is fundamentally spatial. He claims that geological space, biological space, and chemical space function as instruments of analysis. They are adequate to study not just the present configuration of an object but also the Tran historical evolution lived by it. Throughout this article it will become evident that dagognetian epistemology is an epistemology of space, as it emphasizes above all else topographic representation. It makes of drawing and of the pictorial instruments of a new intelligibility. furthermore, he acknowiedges that the dynamic of spdce can only be truly apprehended by
us through the traces or marks left by objects in spatial configuration. In this sense, that is by turning space and the traces left in it by objects into primordial analytic tools, the neo-epistemology of Dagognet abandons the traditional posture of scientific epistemology. It makes forms, iconographies and the spatial themes of a theory of knowledge that is fundamentally aesthetic.