Colonial order imposed both disciplinary power and the ontology of representation

Evidence

The Orient refused to present itself like an exhibit, and so appeared simply orderless and without meaning. The colonising process was to introduce the kind of order now found lacking—the effect of structure that was to provide not only a new disciplinary power but also the novel ontology of representation. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 39

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The double claim — that order produces both power and a metaphysics — is the chapter’s paradigm-shifting core, linking Foucault’s discipline to a theory of representation as a colonial artifact.
• XREF: Directly builds on Foucault’s disciplinary power but extends it into ontology; ties to the reader’s notes on institutions restoring information. — connects to: the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”; the MOC “The Tongue of Power: When Language Becomes the Battlefield of Empire”; the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”