In place of the Germanic ordered forest that [James C.] Scott uses as a potent metaphor for the start of the modern imposition of bureaucratic order upon populations, we might go with the thicket of subjugated knowledge that sprouts like weeds among the disciplinary forms of knowledge, threatening always to overwhelm the cultivation and pruning of the intellectual with mad plant life.

Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure, “Introduction: Low Theory,” p. 9 (Duke University Press 2011)