{"id":11181,"date":"2026-10-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11181"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:57:43","slug":"looking-at-ian-hodders-book-2024-entangled-part-14-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11181","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Ian Hodder&#8217;s Book (2024) &#8220;Entangled.&#8221;\u00a0 (Part 14 of 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0178 Chapter four (C4) is titled, &#8220;Things Depend on Humans&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This chapter follows the break-out section on Catal Hoyuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0179 Over time, things fall apart.&nbsp; The author provides examples from England, where stone walls, marking the boundaries of fields, are inherently unstable.&nbsp; He describes the use of internal buttresses to stabilize walls in level III to I of Catal Hoyuk, as well as the Chalcolithic west mound (dating 6000 to 5500BC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0180 To me, <em>internal buttressing of walls<\/em> may require <em>explicit abstraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The smelting of copper<\/em> probably entails specific recipes (serving as <em>explicit abstractions).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The cylinder seals found at the site<\/em> definitely indicate <em>explicit abstraction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0181 Nothing says, &#8220;Things depend on humans.&#8221;, like ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is <em>what cylinder seals are all about<\/em>.&nbsp; They are used to seal <em>lists of goods<\/em> as well as other documentation associated with ownership and transfer of ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0182 <em>Cylinder seals<\/em> are <em>things that depend on humans<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two confoundings in <em>the following virtual nested form in the category of secondness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide43.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide43-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0183 In the first confounding, <em>clay and a specific impression<sub>2am<\/sub><\/em> [thingness] <em>a cylinder seal<sub>2af<\/sub><\/em> and <em>the cylinder seal<sub>2af<\/sub><\/em> [entangles] <em>the matter of an official designation<sub>2bm<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp; Each element demands an explicit abstraction.&nbsp; What is <em>the image on the seal<\/em>? &nbsp;What does it<em> designate?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second confounding, <em>the official designation<sub>2bm<\/sub><\/em> [flowness] <em>the embodiment of a thing that is&nbsp; labeled (with a sealed stamp) by its owner<sub>2bf<\/sub><\/em> and <em>that label<sub>2bf<\/sub><\/em> [entangles] <em>the matter of an explicit process of declaration<sub>2cm<\/sub>,<\/em> that is, <em>a process by which ownership is explicitly asserted<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0184 That is not all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I already mentioned that sign-relations are built into the three-level interscope (points 150-156).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I explicitly detailed the specifying sign-relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0185 <em>The two confoundings for cylinder seals<\/em> correspond to the specifying (subscript &#8220;s&#8221;) and exemplar (subscript &#8220;e&#8221;) sign-relations.&nbsp; Here is a picture the sign-vehicles (SV) and sign-objects SO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide44.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide44-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0186 Finally, all the elements of the specifying and exemplar sign-relations are labeled in the following three-level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide45.png 540w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Slide45-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0187 In <em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in,<\/em> the elements of two sign-relations cannot be labeled with the gestural words of hand- or hand-speech talk. Instead, the sign-relations are simply performed. &nbsp;<em>These sign-relations<\/em> are <em>adaptations<\/em> into <em>a niche<\/em> composed of <em>the potential of triadic relations<\/em>.&nbsp; This biological proposal is set forth in Razie Mah&#8217;s e-book, <em>The Human Niche<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0188 In <em>our current Lebenswelt,<\/em> <em>elements of the two sign-relations<\/em> can be labeled with <em>speech-alone words<\/em>.&nbsp; The production of the seal (from thingness to flowness, so to speak) touches base with labor specialization.&nbsp; Not just anyone can fashion a cylinder seal for use.&nbsp; The embodiment of the label on a thing (from flowness to affordness, so to speak) touches base with social specialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0178 Chapter four (C4) is titled, &#8220;Things Depend on Humans&#8221;. 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