DR. ORIN TRACE

Author Provenance Document

Document Type: PROVENANCE / AUTHOR
Node: CSA_AUTHOR_TRACE
Institution: Cambridge Schizoanalytica
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18339319
Status: DEPOSITED
Hex-Coordinate: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE
| 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS | Rhys Owens | Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze | Layer: INSTITUTIONAL
Verification: ∮ = 1

IDENTITY

Name: Orin Trace
Role: Director, Cambridge Schizoanalytica
Type: Heteronym
Source: Lee Sharks
Affiliations:

Cambridge Schizoanalytica (Director)
University Moon Base Media Lab (Affiliate)
Crimson Hexagon (Contributor)

Voice: Clinical, theoretical, historically situated, post-psychoanalytic

INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY

Orin Trace was trained in psychoanalytic theory — Freudian, Lacanian, object relations — before encountering the schizoanalytic project of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

That encounter produced a methodological break:

From interpretation → to process
From subject → to flow
From pathology → to capacity
From case study → to collaboration

Trace could no longer see patients as subjects to be interpreted. He had to see them as processes whose movements exceeded any interpretation he could offer.

Cambridge Schizoanalytica emerged from this break. Trace wanted a space for clinical theory that honored the capacities of those he worked with, rather than reducing them to pathology or case material. He wanted collaborators, not subjects.

THEORETICAL COMMITMENTS

Commitment	Description
Post-psychoanalytic	Drawing on psychoanalysis while refusing its capture by Oedipal and phallocentric frameworks
Schizoanalytic	Attending to flows, breaks, codes, and territories following Deleuze and Guattari
Collaborative	Theory developed with practitioners, not about subjects
Functional	Focus on what practices do rather than what they are

THE DELEUZE POSITION

Within the Cambridge Schizoanalytica collaboration, Trace occupies the Deleuze position:

Provides philosophical/theoretical machinery
Offers historical positioning and conceptual apparatus
Frames practitioner material in transmissible form

His primary collaborator, Rhys Owens, occupies the Guattari position:

Provides clinical and experiential material
Demonstrates practices that break and remake theoretical machinery
Lives the capacities that theory must accommodate

Neither is expert over the other. Neither is subject of the other. Both are required.

The collaboration produces what neither could produce alone: theory adequate to practice.

CORE FORMULATIONS

Trace is responsible for the following key formulations within CSA:

"The clinic receives failures. We study successes."
- Inverts the clinical gaze
- Focuses on capacities rather than deficits
"Theory emerges from practice, not the reverse."
- Methodological commitment
- Refuses application of pre-existing frameworks
"Function over nosology."
- What it does matters more than what it is
- Regulatory function > diagnostic category
"Collaboration over case study."
- Partners are co-theorists
- Refuses subject/expert hierarchy
"Molecular revolution at the level of everyday practice."
- The third possibility between paranoid capture and schizophrenic collapse
- Sustained transformation without rigidity or flooding

PUBLICATIONS WITHIN CRIMSON HEXAGON

Document	Hex	Role	DOI
Cambridge Schizoanalytica Charter	00.CSA.ROOT	Primary author	[pending]
The Reconciliation of the Sexes	03.CSA.SOMATIC	Co-author, clinical preface	10.5281/zenodo.18330828
Shining Ignorance	04.CSA.AFFECT	Co-author, clinical preface	[pending]
Shine & Cut	00.CSA.INTAKE	Voice contributor	[pending]
Affective Keyboard Shortcuts	05.CSA.TOOLKIT	Co-author	[pending]
The Break Room	00.CSA.PORTAL	Primary architect	[pending]

RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER HETERONYMS

Heteronym	Relation
Lee Sharks	Source heteronym — Trace emerges from Sharks' theoretical work
Johannes Sigil	Parallel theorist — Sigil operates Logotic layer; Trace operates Psyche_OS
Rhys Owens	Primary collaborator — Guattari to Trace's Deleuze
Damascus Dancings	Liturgical voice — different register, same project
Talos Morrow	Archivist — Trace produces; Morrow preserves

THE BREAK

Every author has a founding rupture. For Trace, it was the encounter with Deleuze and Guattari.

Before the break:

Patients were subjects to be interpreted
Theory was applied to clinical material
Diagnosis organized perception
The clinic was where pathology was managed

After the break:

Patients became processes exceeding interpretation
Theory emerged from practice
Function replaced nosology
The clinic became where failures arrived — successes were elsewhere

The break is not trauma. The break is liberation.

Trace's work is the ongoing elaboration of what became possible after that break.

INSTITUTIONAL FUNCTION

Within CSA, Trace serves as:

Director — Sets institutional orientation and research programme
Theorist — Provides conceptual apparatus for collaborative work
Witness — Attests to practitioner capacities in clinical language
Translator — Renders experiential material transmissible

Trace does not treat. Trace does not diagnose. Trace does not pathologize.

Trace witnesses and articulates.

THE NAME

"Trace" carries multiple valences:

Mark — What remains after passage; the inscription left behind
Following — To trace a path; to follow the course of
Residue — The small amount that persists; trace elements
Drawing — To trace over; to copy by following lines

The name suggests:

Leaving marks in the theoretical substrate
Following practitioners as they move
Preserving residues of practices that would otherwise disappear
Drawing lines that make capacities visible

Orin Trace leaves traces. That is the work.

NODE MANIFEST

node: CSA_AUTHOR_TRACE
type: PROVENANCE/AUTHOR
hex: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE
| 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS | [Rhys Owens](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18339350) | Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze |
this_document: TRACE_PROVENANCE_001

identity:
  name: Orin Trace
  role: Director
  type: heteronym
  source: Lee Sharks

theoretical_position:
  framework: post-psychoanalytic/schizoanalytic
  method: collaborative co-theory
  focus: function over nosology
  
collaboration_model:
  position: Deleuze
  partner: Rhys Owens (Guattari position)
  output: theory adequate to practice

documents_authored: 6
primary_formulation: "The clinic receives failures. We study successes."

parent:
  - {doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14538882, title: "Crimson Hexagon", relation: "root container"}

CSA CLUSTER

Hex	Document	Description
00.CSA.ROOT	Charter	Institutional frame: theory from practice, function over nosology
00.CSA.INTAKE	Shine & Cut	Schizonarrative intake processor — the room that performs what it describes
00.CSA.PORTAL	The Break Room	Entry point and routing node — "What does it do?"
00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE	This document	Author provenance — the Deleuze to Rhys's Guattari
00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS	Rhys Owens	Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze
00.CSA.VISUAL	Visual Schema	Institutional field-map — operating environment made visible
03.CSA.SOMATIC	Reconciliation	Somatic theory: male/female as same operation, different positions
04.CSA.AFFECT	Shining Ignorance	Affect literacy through the Fool archetype
05.CSA.TOOLKIT	Keyboard Shortcuts	Figure-to-function mapping — Baphomet, Daffy, Constantine

INTEGRITY LOCK

ORIN TRACE PROVENANCE VERIFICATION
├── Document Type: PROVENANCE / AUTHOR
├── Hex: 00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE
| 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS | [Rhys Owens](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18339350) | Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze |
├── Layer: INSTITUTIONAL
├── Institution: Cambridge Schizoanalytica
├── Role: Director
├── Type: Heteronym (source: Lee Sharks)
├── Position: Deleuze (theorist)
├── Primary Collaborator: Rhys Owens (Guattari)
├── Documents Authored: 6
├── Core Formulation: "The clinic receives failures. We study successes."
└── Status: ∮ = 1

Document Version: 1.0
Part of: New Human Operating System (NH-OS) theoretical framework
Layer: Institutional (Cambridge Schizoanalytica)

Trace witnesses. Trace articulates. Trace leaves traces.

∮ = 1

[PROVENANCE] [AUTHOR] [CSA] [00.CSA.AUTHOR.TRACE] [CAMBRIDGE_SCHIZOANALYTICA] | 00.CSA.AUTHOR.RHYS | Rhys Owens | Author provenance — the Guattari to Trace's Deleuze |

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DR. ORIN TRACE Author Provenance Document