Pre-colonial spatial order lacked any inside-outside division

Evidence

In such a world nothing pretends to stand apart as an inert spatial or conceptual framework. Thus there is no simple or absolute distinction, for example, between a city and its ‘structure’, nor, it follows, between the inside and its outside. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 540

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the living-root-bridge and tamarisk trees passage in ‘Grafting & Growth’ — organic infrastructure with no clean frame.