Controlling Chaos

Perhaps the Vermeulen article brings me to some sort of answer on why I wanted more connection in the storylines of Ghostwritten. To make life look less random and control chance, one can use "monitoring, conserving, and observing" (388) hoping to establish "patterns and regularities" (388). Foucault claims that "statistics, insurance, and the human sciences" allow the individual to control chance and predict the future. Foucault calls this the characterization of "biopower". Is that the power I'm trying to use over the storylines? To classify and control the chaos? Trying to make patterns out of chaos in a novel doesn't seem absurd.