Disorder is conceptually produced by order, not a primordial threat to it.

Evidence

Its notion of disorder is a condition created conceptually only in the mirror of order. It is visible and thinkable only as the absence of the geometric lines, the equal intervals, the regulated movements of a system of order, of nizam. And this order was a recent innovation. ‘Disorder’ is not a condition that precedes thought, a threat fundamental to the human condition, against which thought itself is ever busy organising the conceptual order. Disorder goes with order, as the polarity and boundary of a particular sort of world. … It is the void that places order as the centre, existing only to allow ‘order’ its conceptual possibility. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 286

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuine paradigm reorientation: the polarity disorder/order is itself historical, not given. The idea that ‘disorder’ only becomes thinkable as the lack of a specific recent innovation (nizam) overturns the universalist assumption that chaos precedes thought.