variety (difference) vs variation (self-similarity)

While reading Fer's article, I was reminded of something I was shown in one of my studios.

"Quantity is a precondition of fineness.
Repetition in multiple models is necessary to make selections.
Repetition within a single model is necessary to register differentiation.
Difference, or the possibility of difference, is produced as an answer to program."

- Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser and Umemoto

In studio, we are almost always encouraged to produce reiterations of our ideas in order to refine and further progress our ideas. In light of Funes' story, if we lived in a world where we could not recognize recurrence because we recalled everything perfectly, architecture students would be very miserable. Fer claims that repetition is necessary to Martin's work, "to create maximum difference, but also to demonstrate the interminable work of the work" (456) and that "repetition ensures some regulating pattern of recognition." Was the purpose of repetition solely to conceptualize infinity? How exactly do you manage to put together abstraction and conceptualization? It's seems like the resulting word would be an oxy-moron.

Martin began with found objects and gradually entered the realm of drawing & painting, but retained the "ready-made" quality of her work (i.e., the grid). Could it be said that Martin's work is a reiteration of the work that Duchamp started in the sense that he exposed the ready-made quality of art? If we were to smash Duchamp and Martin into one person, would her work resemble anything that Duchamp would have made if he continued with his ready-mades?