In short, it is by exorcizing the dream of the ‘royal science’ invested with the regal right of regere fines and regere sacra, with the nomothetic or law-giving power of decreeing union and separation, that science can take as its object the very game whose stake is the power of governing the sacred frontiers, that is, the quasi-divine
power over the vision of the world, and in which one has no choice, if one seeks to exercise it (rather than submit to it), other than to mystify or demystify.
<p>11</p><p>Social Space and the Genesis of ‘Classes’</p>