The virtuality of this relation, between the "totality" of the whole, and the part, or metonymic dwarf, which nevertheless stands in place of it, eclipsing and exceeding it in every respect, describes a recursion of the unassimilable, or what Derrida elsewhere terms the "dangerous supplement" (Of Grammatology). It is this supplementarity which describes what Shannon and Ruelle term "engines of information," or what cyberneticists term auto-poietic machines. Just as telemedia describe metonyms of what McKenzie Wark has called "virtual geography," auto-poietic machines describe analogous processes of mechanised autoproduction. In cybernetics the term auto-poietic refers to "machines" organised as a network of processes of production, transformation and destruction. This network gives rise to components which, through their interactions and transformations, regenerate and in turn realise the network or processes that produced them. At the same time these components constitute the network as a concrete unity in the space in which they exist by specifying the "topological domain of its realisation." In other words, the components of auto-poietic machines generate recursively, by means of their interaction, the same network of processes by which they themselves are produced. Media theorists, like Paul Virilio, have drawn attention to analogous phenomena of archival recursion, describing the spatio-temporal domain of telemedia as a "museum of accidents." In both cases, media affects a critical emplacement by means of a programmatic incidentalism: the generative "chance operation" of a metonymic forethrow as inverse mechanism of "data surveillance" (mirroring the figure of the cartographer inscribed in or by the map-territory in which it itself is also already inscribed).