Through the act of reading, these things are brought not just into relation—but in the way of Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari—rhizomatic. Glissant describes rhizomatic thought as “the principle behind what I call the Poetics of Relation, in which each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other.”3 An enmeshed root system

Glissant describes rhizomatic thought as “the principle behind what I call the Poetics of Relation, in which each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other.” [3] An enmeshed root system based on interconnectedness.