Foucualt and ODE

Does anyone else get the idea that a nice language to describe Foucault's views on discourse is through a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (and the flow being the solution flow of such a system)? The solution, of course, can be potentially chaotic and yet completely deterministic (like the Lorenz attractor). For a long time now, I've sort of felt that that's been the best way to picture it - but I could be way off base here.

In unrelated news, I plan to see Snakes on a Plane tonight.