Every social objectivity is constituted through excluding acts of power.

Evidence

In coming to terms with pluralism, what is really at stake is power and antagonism and their ineradicable character. This can only be grasped from a perspective that puts into question the objectivism and essentialism which arc dominant in democratic theory. In H~mwn, ana Socialist Strllteg},l we delineated an approach that assem that any social objectivity is constituted through acts of power. This means that any social objectivity is ultimately political and has to show the traCes of the acts of exclusion which govern its constitution; what, following Derrida, can be referred to as irs ‘constitutive outside’. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 95

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the ‘constitutive outside’ concept central to the enemy/adversary distinction.
• XREF: Directly connects to Derrida’s deconstruction and Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction that the reader is testing against. — connects to: All social objectivity is grounded on an originary exclusion — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 61; All social objectivity is constituted through power and exclusion.; Every dominant image of the human is defined against the possibilities it excludes — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 162 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• All social objectivity is constituted through power and exclusion. #expands (0.95)
• Every identity is constituted relationally through what it excludes #exemplifies (0.92) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371
• Every dominant image of the human is defined against the possibilities it excludes #exemplifies (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 162
• Oppositional forces are inherent to every structure of power #corroborates (0.78)
• Affluence and liberty serve as the guise through which domination absorbs all opposition #complicates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 148
• State power reproduces a common, diffused subjectivity across every citizen #exemplifies (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 201