ABSTRACT
That every order tends to criminalise resistance to itself and outlaw its assumed or genuine enemies is evident to the point of triviality. What is less obvious, yet seems to emerge from our brief survey of the forms which the pursuit of purity has taken in modern and post-modern times, is that the object of particularly zealous and intense outlawing are the radical consequences of the order's own constitutive principles [ Bauman 1997:15].
