This chapter explores the philosophical and ontological implications behind Jorge Luis Borges’ famous “Chinese encyclopaedia,” which also inspired Michel Foucault in The Order of Things. I propose reading this seemingly absurd classification not as a mere logical paradox, but as a clue to a radically different way of understanding the world—one not grounded in stable and shared orders, but in gestures, traits, and emergent differences that produce fleeting yet meaningful singularities. This “ichnological” vision suggests a universe made not of stable beings, but of traces and gestures, aligning thought with performativity and magic rather than structure and identity. Through references to Borges, Foucault, Descartes, the Bible, and Sino-Japanese linguistics (particularly the role of classifiers), I develop a theory of the trace, in which being is not foundational but produced—an emergence rather than an origin. The essay culminates in a reinterpretation of the Western notion of creatio ex nihilo, not as a metaphysical foundation, but as a symptom of the distorted and unresolved experience of pure singularity.