If the world is at base a primary flux of matter without form or constant, then things are always a temporary product of a channelling of this flux in what Deleuze and Guattari call ‘assemblages’ or ‘arrangements’...
B. Denkena, M. Dittrich, und F. Winter. Cyber-Physical and Gentelligent Systems in Manufacturing and Life Cycle, Kapitel 3.1.1, Academic Press, London, (2017)