Los juegos del espacio y del lenguaje: heterotopia, isotopia, caligrama

Abstract

Thie aim of this article is to show that the history of the order of things presented in the Words and Things, is undoubtedly only possible based on an experience of absence of order, asspecifically occurs in the heterotopia of Borges (quoted at the beginning of WordsandThings) or also as it is found in the pictorial heterotopia of Magritte (analysed by Foucault in Thisisnot apipe ). However, these twin figures of heterotopia critically enfold and limit, space where classical knowledge is displayed, of which the «Discourse of Nature», which ends in «botanical calligrams» dreamed by Linnaeus, seems to offer the paradigm: an isotopic knowledge where the order of the discourse and the order of things would be communicated until confusion.