Discussion 1 Foucault's The Order of Things

There are a couple of fairly important aspects to this text. One of them is the transformation in the way in which organization and order are brought to bear on the nature of Things, and the way in which "organization" is structured by a "discipline" and "discourse" and therefore the type of objects and positivities that emerge there. The primary point is how in the Modern episteme classification went beneath the system of classification to locate a series of "invisibilities" that constituted the nature of things and their relations. This is true for biology, economics, and the study of languages. Two important terms here are function and topology. We'll see how this also plays out in architecture.