RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Michel Foucault, Railways Act 1921
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We are familiar with the disconcerting effect of the proximity of extremes or with the sudden vicinity of things that have no relation to each other. There is a worse kind of disorder than that the incongruous the linking together of things that are inappropriate > disorder in which fragments of a large number of possible orders glitter separately in the dimension. But eye not consciously prepared may group together certain similar figures and distinguish between others on the basis of such and such a difference. System of elements is indispensable for the establishment of even the simplest form of order. Fundamental codes of a culture establish for every man (1) the empirical orders with which he will be dealing and within which he will at home. As well as (2) scientific theories or the philosophical interpretations which explain why order exists in general.
