Bayamus enters the stage and dusts off its shoulders.

Let's start the interview before the water kettle whistles. What's the first question gonna be?

[ potential inspiration: https://www.google.de/books/edition/Explorations_in_the_Field_of_Nonsense/-qOQLHjnfIUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=special+branch+themerson&pg=PA3 ]

What is the collective?
I don't know, and I doubt that anyone does. I have never read anything that taught it to me. I have sometimes lived through certain events that make a little light in this dark. And sometimes, next to a dinner companion. This black category of collective, group, class, caste, whatever, is it a being in turn, or a cluster of relations?

Michel Serres: The Parasite