Director Agnès Varda in Faces Places. (Streaming on Netflix.)

I think, of course, of John Cage, and “chance operations,” and how Steven Johnson says “chance favors the connected mind.”

Also, Lewis Hyde, in Trickster Makes This World:

More conservative minds deprive coincidence of meaning by treating it as background noise or garbage, but the shape-shifting mind pesters the distinction between accident and essence and remakes this world out of whatever happens.