site

is an impossible non-place, drawing together into a single category animals which are frenzied, those that are innumerable, and those that are drawn with a very fine camelhair brush. The site, the common ground on which such meetings are possible is possible only in an 'unthinkable space', the non-place of language.

The monstrous quality that runs through Borges's enumeration consist, on the contrary, in the fact that the common ground on which such meetings are possible has itself been destroyed. What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible. The animals '(i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush' where could they ever meet, except in the immaterial sound of the voice pronouncing their enumeration, or on the page transcribing it' Where else could they be juxtaposed except in the non-place of language' Yet, though language can spread them before us, it can do so only in an unthinkable space. (Foucault 1966 : xvi-xvii)

is constituted today not only by discursive and nondiscursive practices, but also by shifting lines that disarticulate and rearticulate elements in constellations.

Today, our inquiry goes beyond 'the conceptual world in which our subjects live,'35 but our approach may still be characterized as low-flying, an analytical angle that stays close to discursive and nondiscursive practices. Our goal is to engage in midrange theorizing about observable contemporary human phenomena in a variety of mutating human situations. We seek to capture the shifting lines that disarticulate and rearticulate elements in constellations that constitute the site or object of investigation. It ' (Ong 2006:13).

is that which, in structuralism, prevails over whatever occupies it. We are mortal by 'coming to' a particular site.

Structuralism cannot be separated from a new transcendental philosophy, in which the sites prevail over whatever occupies them. Father, mother, etc., are first of all sites in a structure... and if we are mortal, it is by moving into the line, by coming to a particular site, marked in the structure following this topological order of proximities (even when we do so ahead of our turn). (Deleuze 'desert islands' 2002: 174)

structuralism

is the impossible mute ground upon which it is possible for certain entities to be juxtaposed. Some sites are possible only in the non-place of language.

The monstrous quality that runs through Borges's enumeration consist, on the contrary, in the fact that the common ground on which such meetings are possible has itself been destroyed. What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible. The animals '(i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush' where could they ever meet, except in the immaterial sound of the voice pronouncing their enumeration, or on the page transcribing it' Where else could they be juxtaposed except in the non-place of language' Yet, though language can spread them before us, it can do so only in an unthinkable space. (Foucault 1966 : xvi-xvii) . . . Borges adds no figure to the atlas of the impossible... nowhere does he strike the spark of poetic confrontation... he simply dispenses with the least obvious, but most compelling, of necessities... he does away with the site, the mute ground upon which it is possible for entities to be juxtaposed. A vanishing trick that is masked or, rather, laughably indicated by our alphabetical order, which is to be taken as the clue (the only visible one) to the enumerations of a Chinese encyclopaedia. . . . (Foucault 1966: xvii)

site, n.All

site