Heterogeneity is a formal disposition against closure rather than a demographic fact.

Evidence

Heterogeneities, in short, amount to a disposition against closure. Structured and informed by grids of intelligibility themselves constituted by what Foucault marks in The History of Sexuality as a “heterogeneous ensemble” of “discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions,” dispositions are complexly articulated relations. Heterogeneities thus are grids of intelligibility and variably informed interests, prompts, and practices breaking with those imposed merely as delimitations or constraints, restrictions and delimitations. As complex dispositions, heterogeneities entail a facing towards others in their respective multiplicities. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1894

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames what Goldberg means by ‘heterogeneities’ as a concept — a disposition against closure, rooted in Foucault’s heterogeneous ensemble.