Successful métissage dissolves the very category once realized

Evidence

Chaos-monde is neither fusion nor confusion: it acknowledges neither the uniform blend-a ravenous integrationnor muddled nothingness. Chaos is not “chaotic.” … But its hidden order does not presuppose hierarchies or pre-cellencies-neither of chosen languages nor of princenations. The chaos-rnonde is not a mechanism; it has no keys. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 487 (#expands, via linked claim)

But as soon as Sykes attempted to transform the Semitic into a political category, the tension at the heart of the idea—the sharp division between Christian Europe’s relationships with Judaism and Islam—started to come to the fore. From the start, the political Semite was bedevilled with opposition: among Zionists, Arabs and agents of the British and French imperial states. And once the new global public sphere, embodied in the League of Nations, was presented with the figure of the anti-Zionist Arab, the Semitic category ceased to make sense and began to unravel. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 705 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Recategorization succeeds only if the superordinate category is perceived as distinctive — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 736; Hegemonizing a disseminated field through universalization can recuperate difference; Politicizing the Semite category caused the concept to unravel — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 705 (+5 more)

Related

• Creolization dissolves the original purity of the categories being mixed (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hegemonizing a disseminated field through universalization can recuperate difference #contradicts (0.85)
• Creolized totality is ordered yet free of hierarchy and essence #expands (0.85) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 487
• Recategorization succeeds only if the superordinate category is perceived as distinctive #qualifies (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 736
• Politicizing the Semite category caused the concept to unravel #exemplifies (0.80) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 705
• Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success #corroborates (0.80) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 314
• Transformation happens by assuming shared categories rather than questioning them. #contradicts (0.80) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 47
• Believing a category is natural grants inference power and permanence #corroborates (0.75)