Pre-structuralist ideologies have imposed an intensive corpus of delineations debating an epistemological investigation defining the construction of spatial commonality with the apple vs. orange taxonomic paradigm. The dialectic underpinnings of such debates have reached a collective synthesis that accepts and in turn underscores specific taxonomic constructs connecting the two objects under consideration. This synthesis presents a hierarchical system that structures a spatial field segregating the two members of the fruit family and establishes the hegemony of the apple in relation to the orange. However, a re-examination of presented evidence divulges epistemological patterns that question and ultimately redefine the underpinnings as well as the historicity of such a synthesis. As this paper will expose, this re-examination will lead to a reconfiguration of this supposition in favor of a spatial matrix that establishes the subservient relation of the orange vis-à-vis the apple.

Source: Mohammad al-Asad