despre ordinea lucrurilor

...si alte modele repetitive care par a fi ceva inedit, de fiecare data cand se intampla, in acea combinatie particulara...

The map reflects the collective memory of a society, including its organization, and sometimes its racial prejudice and colonial history. It is an instrument of political, cultural, and economic power that legitimizes a certain violence in the cloak of a natural order of things.

from Christian Jacob's The Sovereign Map, 2006, p. 370