Mutual Orthogonality

    There is no noosphere, no biosphere or physiosphere, only mechanosphere. Lines of flight taken by lineralized codings, genes and language, flatten stratification to a plane of consistency, a topological Klein bottle or Mobius strip, a single exterior surface in n-1 dimensions. While assemblage wholes may form assemblage parts, this is no more holarchy than it is hierarchy, for a regional market may be part of multiple provincial markets, not Babushka dolls, but neither discrete whole-parts:  regional market as joint, point of articulation, at which Siamese provincial markets are enmeshed in a proliferation of Venn diagrams of perpendicularity.

    We go deep, and tracing a non-Euclidean line of flight, find that up is not opposite of left, a downward course taking us sideways.  Let us stand at the literal liminal of a littoral, epistrata between land and sea. Seaweed and sea shells, beached blue whales and buried turtle eggs, deterritorialize and sediment upon continental shores, a milieu of crabs and microfauna forming epistrata of tidepools, as even the lucid technicolor of particulated plastics from the Pacific Gyre precipitate out of a milieu of oceans, reterritorializing as a new strata of sand.  Likewise, fjords and shores erode, messages in bottles and medicinal estrogens sediment into the waters, nitrogens deterritorialized once from fossils and reterritorialized as fertilizers, deterritorialize again from farmland plots, sedimenting once more as substrata of algal blooms, of which milieu a sediment of dead fish and suffocated lobster accrete upon ocean floor.  Respiration of a clam, by which bodily calcium is deterritorialized to strata of shell, reaching its historical end, these shells too are deterritorialized into epistrata of ocean.  The Pacific Gyre is likewise orthogonal to all this, shopping bags (deterritorialized first by the hands of a supermarket bagging clerk, then from under kitchen sinks to sediment, with their territorialized refuse, in a municipal mass waste stream) and water bottles (once territory of waters deterritorialized from the Catskills only to be reterritorialized along the final stretches of an alimentary canal), so much effluence of affluence, sediment along the surface edges of this Sargasso, accreting to this spinning disc of macromolecule polymers, expressing their longevity through territories of plastic, six pack holders strangling sea turtles (which sediment upon ocean floor) while plastic cups reterritorialize as evolutionary bastions for microfauna contained within, until mechanical motion and ultraviolet rays deterritorialize even these polymers to particulate sands.  We go deep, singing a song to blue whales, diving in the depths off a continental shelf, about Sally, who, having deterritorialized a clam shell with her hand, has reterritorialized that shell upon a pressboard shelf, so much sediment of knickknacks and tchotchkes double articulating as keepsakes, in parastrata at the orthogonal depths of continental commerce, flotsam and jetsam of a meshwork milieu of local, regional, provincial, national, and global markets.