The concept of disorder is manufactured by the new regime of order

Evidence

Its notion of disorder is a condition created conceptually only in the mirror of order. It is visible and thinkable only as the absence of the geometric lines, the equal intervals, the regulated movements of a system of order, of nizam. And this order was a recent innovation. ‘Disorder’ is not a condition that precedes thought, a threat fundamental to the human condition, against which thought itself is ever busy organising the conceptual order. Disorder goes with order, as the polarity and boundary of a particular sort of world. … It is the void that places order as the centre, existing only to allow ‘order’ its conceptual possibility. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 286 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industrial-era disorder itself spawned the modern city’s new order. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 323; Social science was marketed as a way to impose order on a disordered world. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 357; The idea of social order was an abstraction produced by new discipline (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Disorder is conceptually produced by order, not a primordial threat to it. #corroborates (0.98) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 286