Statistical investigation grasps the material of these practices, but not their form; it determines the elements used, but not the “phrasing” produced by the bricolage (the artisan-like inventiveness) and the discursiveness that combine these elements, which are all in general circulation and rather drab. Statistical inquiry, in breaking down these “efficacious meanderings” into units that it defines itself, in reorganizing the resutls of its analysis according to its own codes, ‘finds” only the homogeous,. The power of its calcualtions lies in its ability to divid, but it is preceisely through this analytic fragmentation that it loses sight of what it claims to seek and represent.