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

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Emma Cocker, ‘Towards an Attitude of Openness’
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1220981/1220982