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1 " My body is an interchange of time. It is traversed with signals, noises, messagesand parasites. It is not exceptional in this vast world. This remains true of animals and plants, of air andcrystals, of cells and atoms, of groups and constructed objects. Transformation, deformation ofinformation.I had thought that interchanges were intermediaries, that interference was on the fringe, that thetranslator was placed between instances43, that the bridge connected two riverbanks, that the path wentfrom the origin to the goal. There are no instances. Or rather, instances, systems, riverbanks, etc. areanalyzable in turn as interchanges, paths, translations and so on. There are no instances or systemsexcept for black boxes. When we do not understand, when we defer our knowledge to a later date, whenthe thing is too complex for the means of the day, when we put everything in a temporary black box, weprejudge that it is a matter of a system. When we can finally open the box, we see that this boxfunctions like a space of transformation. There are no systems, instances or substances except from ourignorance. A system is non-knowledge. The other side of non-knowledge. Non-knowledge has a chaosside and a system side. Knowledge bridges these two riverbanks. Knowledge as such is a space oftransformation.This entire question is fractal. "
― Michel Serres , The Parasite
