<p>This article examines the sovereign production of peripheral subjectivities in the process of authoritarian modernization in Iran through a four-momented ontological framework: exclusion, normalization, politicization, and the emergence of potential communities. Drawing on Agamben’s concepts of <i>bare life</i> and the <i>state of exception</i>, the first two moments show how Reza Shah’s modernization dismantled tribal and linguistic lifeworlds and absorbed erased identities into a singular national narrative. The third moment traces the return of repressed subjectivities in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan as agents unsettling national unity. The final moment theorizes "<i>potential communities</i>" that resist totalization and cultivate plural, relational forms of collective life grounded in recognition, inclusion, and ethical responsibility toward diverse societies. It interrupts the ontological process of othering and exclusion that sustains the state’s symbolic order and restores "<i>inclusivity</i>" as a vital social principle, enabling society to recognize and embrace difference rather than erase it.</p>