The Ecstasy of the Fetish?

Punched cards and dominoes; presence and absence.

Some Dutch sailors playing dominoes.  Each domino represents the outcomes of throwing two dice.

A set of Hindu dominoes.  Eastern culture adapted thrown dice into static tiles.

The work of Indian scholar Pingala is the first known description of binary, as a description of metre.  Leibniz discovered binary in the West more than a few centuries later, not too long before dominoes made their way to Europe.

Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.