Politicised linguistic, caste or ethnic groups frequently frustrate the ideologies of (corporate) beauty by expressing their 'desire for democracy', rather than modernity, thereby disrupting the rational visions of the town planners and citizens who cherish the image of a city that will take its proud place in a global capitalist order. At a time when the instrumentalities of the state (the judicial or the planning apparatuses) are skilfully deployed by those possessed of a vision of modernity, the untidy often violent spatial strategies of political society may well "reterritorialise" space that has been "deterritorialised" by the globalisation of capital so that "we may well be witnessing an emerging opposition between modernity and democracy" in the contests over city-space.
