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41. See, for example, Michel Foucault, Dispositive der Macht: Ober
Sexualitat, Wissen und Wahrheit (Berlin, 1978), pp. 119ff.
42. I borrow from Niklas Luhmann the idea that different social systems are
based on different binary codes. See, among other essays by Luhmann, "1st
Kunst codierbar?" in Luhmann, Soziologische Aufklarung, vol. 3 (Opladen,
1981), pp. 245-266. See also Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "Pathologies in the
System of Literature, " in Gumbrecht, Making Sense in Life and Literature,
pp. 247-271. Furthermore, it was Luhmann who first suggested associating the
concept of "culture" with the deparadoxifying function of "binary codes"
("Okologie des Nichtwissens," in Luhmann, Beobachtungen der Moderne,
p.201).
43. In this sense, the sequence of short texts that constitute Starobinski's
1789: Les emblemes de la Raison can be read as a similarly "decentering"
structure of "entries" -although it is not presented in alphabetical order.
44. Interestingly, the "network" metaphor was used only in the English title
(Discourse Networks) of Friedrich Kittler's doubly synchronic analysis, Aufschreibesysteme
180011900 (Munich, 1985).
45. See Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Rhizom (Berlin, 1977).
46. Flaubert's notes, which were found in a folder labeled "Dictionnaire des
idees re