The entities we perceive as parts of the hyperobject we call nature – rocks, trees, rivers, insects – are, for a computer, mere masses of points without entity: without object or subject. These points congregate and disperse freely in its vision: the algorithm knows nothing about the forms that engender being. Thus, the perspective of the digital animal is always already granular, multiple and recombinant: an artificial perspectivism where every object is potentially all objects: grains of dust changing color, fluttering on a plane of light. Each grain carries multiple natures within it, as many as the algorithm desires. To perceive – and thus, to represent – nature as the digital animal does is to break with the notions of entity, being, body, space, or form. The jaguar of numbers rips apart the flesh of the world.
