The world-as-exhibition order is structurally and necessarily colonial

Evidence

Third, what I will refer to as its colonial nature: the age of the exhibition was necessarily the colonial age, the age of world economy and global power in which we live, since what was to be rendered as exhibit was reality, the world itself. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 82

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Bruno Latour’s claim that ‘we have never been modern’; connects to the reader’s existing work on how world-ordering systems encode power.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what is the exact mechanism that makes the exhibitionary order necessarily colonial rather than merely historically coincident with colonialism?