Another apparatus (printing) which greatly opens up our understanding of the world and our access to others, allowing us to ask the question "which one?"

New apparatuses with which to see and understand the world differently than did the Ancients.

The connection to Barad becomes even more apparent below when Vico calls "critique" an instrument.

Another instrument that Vico uses/alludes to is the act of classification ("set up a distinction," "the orderly reduction of systematic rules").

Is there a way we can think of rhetoric and/or posthumanism as metaphorical apparatuses? Discursive tools through which "meaning" or the "human" becomes diffracted, and then we interact according to the question "which one?"

This reminds me of Barad's focus on an apparatus, how the tools themselves -- "'the materialities of communication'" -- impact our understanding of reality in fundamental ways, actually changing how we understand the world -- the whole light is either a particle or a wave, depending on how you interact with it.

Is there a way we can think of rhetoric and/or posthumanism as metaphorical apparatuses? Discursive tools through which "meaning" or the "human" becomes diffracted, and then we interact according to the question "which one?"