For a while I’ve been working with a notion of “practice” dependent upon Alasdair MacIntyre’s definition, which views practices as intrinsically normative and embedded narratively in communal structures. More fundamentally, though, I’ve been thinking of practices as continuous with ritual, in which something is done in such a way as to elicit a response from the center such as to enable an ongoing revision of the practice. I’ve paired practices with hypotheses, analogically with the pairing of ritual with myth (wherein myth supplements the “failures” of ritual), so that part of the practice is the generation of hypotheses regarding possible responses from the center and their implications for further articulations of the practice. Practices are both grounded in language and technical: the examples I used in
"Selving" would in this case almost be "like" Simondon's notion of Individuation.
Perhaps.