The colonized are cast as an ontological condition of permanent negation and near-death

Evidence

Palestinianization’s temporary temporality is taken as much as ontological condition as political-military condition. The Palestinian is always between, always ill-at-ease, homeless at home if never at home in his homelessness, if anyone really could be, the explicit embodiment of Levinasian facelessness. Shifting, shiftless, unreliable, untrustworthy, nowhere to go, nowhere to be, the persona of negativity, of negation, of death’s potential. He is the quintessential Nobody, as Memmi characterizes the figure of the colonized, the embodiment of enmity, almost already dead. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 671

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘quintessential Nobody’ figure connects to the reader’s material on dehumanization and on how racialized populations are rendered outside the political order.
• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘temporary temporality’ as both a political-military and ontological framing of the colonized.