Colonial sovereignty is boundless and its purpose is perpetual re-creation of the colonized

Evidence

It cannot escape us that sovereignty over the colonized—as over anything else—does not, in its full meaning, obey any particular rules or principles. That economic and material exploitation contradicted the spirit of the declared mission civilisatrice suggests the real meaning of sovereignty: the colonized can be used, abused, exploited, enslaved, freed, civilized, or not; but in the process, and if they survive the whims of subjection, the purpose is to transform them, to re-create them, continually, perpetually, just as progress itself is a never-ending process. Nothing in all of this is contradictory, and everything remains within the realm of the possible. This was real sovereignty. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 242

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Foucault’s biopower and settler-colonial theory of ‘eliminating the native’ (Wolfe), and with the older Césaire/Fanon line that colonialism’s purpose is transformation, not mere extraction. — connects to: Colonialism granted subjecthood to dominated people without granting equality. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 353; Settler-colonial elimination is a permanent structural principle, not a one-time event. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 543
• DEEPTHINKING: The collapse of the mission civilisatrice contradiction into the real meaning of sovereignty as re-creation is paradigm-level and resists easy summary.