By Michel Serres
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We neither know how to nor can we inhabit this fault line, this axis or this vortex: who would build his house in the middle of a cur rent? No institution, no system, no science, no language, no ges ture or thought is founded on this mobile place-which is the ulti mate foundation and founds nothing. We can only head toward it, but, at the very moment of reaching it, we abandon it, compelled by the arrows that depart from it. We spend only an infinitesimal moment there. Time and site of extreme attentiveness.
Experience traverses these places and is exposed. Between nothing and everything, it launches a space and a time, like a free and floating branch. Ecstasy expresses an end to this voyage, the establishment, temporarily stable, or, rather, a dis tancing from the equilibrium around this exposed point, in its neighboring regions, a differential of time. Programmed, the bestial instinct closes in on itself, positioned. The animal is a being-there. In being exposed through experience, man enters into time and opens it.
Fold and Knot I do not know, I know what takes place in the center. I know the overlap, I named it the bandage, the cross or the crossing. Which strip passes over, which under? This elementary question is posed when one takes two threads in hand and gets ready to tie a knot, an ancient practice, in seafar ing or weaving, or, in the theory of graphs, rather new. Below, above. One would say that we are playing hot potato. Penelope the weaver intertwined the stitches in this way: over, under. Every com plex knot is resolved in so many local folds where the same ques tion is again posed: above, below?