The excluded outside is an integral part of modern order

Evidence

To represent itself as modern, the city is dependent upon maintaining the barrier that keeps the other out. This dependence makes the outside, the Oriental, paradoxically an integral part of the modern city. The order of the city does not stop at the limit of the modern town, as Lyautey’s guests were led to think. The limit is something the city maintains within itself, by means of a continuous ordering that is the source of its own ordered identity. Yet it appears as the boundary of order itself. The city, in this analysis, can be taken to exemplify a paradox at work in the maintenance of any modern political order, any modern self-identity. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 516

Categorization

• XREF: This is the same boundary-paradox structure that runs through Mitchell’s whole book — the barrier that appears external is actually maintained internally. Ties to his earlier chapters on colonial order. — connects to: Searle’s philosophy defines its normative interior by excluding whatever it deems outside — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 819