The Order of Things
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When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.
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Practitioners constructed themselves an affective heterotopia-a space carved out by affect that is entwined with all other sites and sets of relations in society, only to suspend and invert them-in (and around) the hashtag #girls help girls#.
“Combining Massumi's (2002) affect theory with Foucault's (1986Foucault's ( , 2005) heterotopia, we argue that practitioners constructed themselves an affective heterotopia-a space carved out by affect that is entwined with all other sites and sets of relations in the society, only to suspend and invert them-in (and around) the hashtag #girls help girls#.”
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Classification is a process imbued with social, economic, and organizational imperatives.
“Classification is a process imbued with social, economic, and organizational imperatives [17, 38].”
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- Authors
- Foucault, M.
- Corresponding author
- Foucault, Michel
- ORCID
- Foucault, Michel
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2005-08-18
- OpenAlex
- W286844892
- Cited by
- 3,281
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 78 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 103 · 2019: 117 · 2018: 110 · 2017: 117 · 2016: 154 · 2015: 144 · 2014: 155 · 2013: 136 · 2012: 128
- FWCI
- 177.18
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Philosophy and Social Theory
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
- Keywords
- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, history of knowledge, taxonomy (general classification scheme), classification, literary composition, exoticism, postmodernism, intellectual history
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