Poetics of Relation
Exploration of the complexities of identity, exile, and relation through the lens of errantry and rootedness, examining the impacts of colonization and the quest for totality in human history.
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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.
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
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