Dora Marsden–writer, intellectual, editor, feminist, publisher–had a thing or two to say about the order of things, mainly that it order is always subjective.  What is interesting about Marsden as opposed to, say Foucault, is that she consistently insists that “order” is always one person’s view of order, and not an order imposed from above, while nevertheless acknowledging the systemic effects of state, law, power, and authority:

The issue of course turns upon the point as to whether in Anarchism, which is a negative term, one’s attention fixes upon the absence of a State establishment, that is the absence of one particular view of order supported by armed force with acquiescence as to its continued supremacy held by allowing to it a favoured position as to defence, in teh community among whom it is established; or the absence of every kind of order supported by the armed force provided and maintained with the consent of the community; but the presence of that kind of order which obtains when each member of a community agrees to want only the kind of order which will not interfere wiht the kind of order likely to be wanted by individuals who compose the rest of the community.” (Dora Marsden, “Anent the Decalogue,” The Egoist, Vol 1, No 5, March 2, 1914, p.84)

She acknowledges here, and elsewhere, that order is always a question of whose order.