Errantry (errance)
18- errantry does not proceed from renunciation nor from frustration regarding a supposedly deteriorated (deterritorialized) situation of origin; it is not a resolute act of rejection or an uncontrolled impulse of abandonment.
- The thought of errantry is a poetics, which always infers that at some moment it is told. The tale of errantry is the tale of Relation.
21- The thinking of errancy conceives of totality but willingly renounces any claims to sum it up or possess it.
20- The thought of errantry is not apolitical nor is it inconsistent with the will to identity, which is, after all, nothing other than the search for a freedom within particular surroundings.
Rhizomatic thought / rhizome
18- the rhizome- prompting the knowledge that identity is no longer completely within the root but also in Relation.
Poetics of Relation
11- each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other
20- in the poetics of Relation, one who is errant (who is no longer a traveler, discoverer or conqueror) strives to know the totality of the world yet already knows he will never accomplish this - and knows that is precisely where the threatened beauty of the world resides.
Relation
34- What took place in the Caribbean, which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation for us as nearly as possible. It is not merely an encounter, a shock... a métissage, but a new and original dimension allowing each person to be there and elsewhere, rooted and open, lost in the mountains and free beneath the sea, in harmony and errantry.
131- The thing recused in every generalization of an absolute, even and especially some absolute secreted within this imaginary construct of Relation: that is, the possibility for each one at every moment to be both solitary and solitary there.
154- the thought of the Other is sterile without the other of Thought
155- The other of Thought is always set in motion by its confluences as a whole, in which each is changed by and changes the other.
157- Distancings are necessary to Relation and depend on it: like the coexistence of sea olive and manchineel.
Identity
141-142 The old idea of identity as root, whenever it proves hard to define or impossible to maintain, leads inexorably to the refuges of generalization provided by the universal as value.
142- Identity as a system of relation, as an aptitude for "giving-on-and-with" (donner-avec) is in contrast, a form of violence that challenges the generalizing universal and necessitates even more stringent demands for specificity.
Creolization
34- carries along...into the adventure of multilingualism and into the incredible explosion of cultures. ... It is the violent sign of their consensual, not imposed, sharing.
89- only exemplified by its processes and certainly not by the "contents" in which these operate.
-Creolizations bring into Relation but not to universalized the principles of creoleness regress toward negritudes, ideas of Frenchness, of Latinness, all generalizing concepts, more or less innocently.
Creole
69- in addition to this obligation to get around something, the Creole language has another, internal obligation: to renew itself in every instance on the basis of a series of forgettings. Forgetting, that is, integration, of what it starts from: the multiplicity of African languages on the one hand and European ones on the other, the nostalgia, finally, for the Caribbean remains of these.
93- The Creole language is a fragile and revealing écho-monde, born of a reality of relation and limited within this reality by its dependence.
-Echos-monde are not exacerbations that result directly from the convulsive conditions of Relation. They are at work in the matter of the world; they prophesy or illuminate it, divert it or conversely gain strength within it.
Plantation
65- one of the focal points for the development of present-day modes of Relation.
67- socially, the Plantation is not the product of a politics but the emanation of a fantasy.
74- The Plantation, like a laboratory, displays most clearly the opposed forces of the oral and the written at work - one of the most deep-rooted topics of our discussion in our contemporary landscape. It is there that multilingualism, that threatened dimension of our universe, can be observed for one of the first times, organically forming and disintegrating.
Earth
13- Relation to the earth is too immediate or too plundering to be linked with any preoccupation with identity - this claim to or consciousness of a lineage inscribed in a territory
151- An aesthetics of the earth? ... Yes. But an aesthetics of disruption and intrusion. ... Imagining the idea of love of the earth...with all the strength of charcoal fires or sweet syrup. Aesthetics of rupture and connection. ... Territory is defined by its limits, and they must be expanded. A land henceforth has no limits. That is the reason it is worth defending against every form of alienation. Aesthetics of a variable continuum, of an invariant discontinuum.
18- errantry does not proceed from renunciation nor from frustration regarding a supposedly deteriorated (deterritorialized) situation of origin; it is not a resolute act of rejection or an uncontrolled impulse of abandonment.
- The thought of errantry is a poetics, which always infers that at some moment it is told. The tale of errantry is the tale of Relation.
21- The thinking of errancy conceives of totality but willingly renounces any claims to sum it up or possess it.
20- The thought of errantry is not apolitical nor is it inconsistent with the will to identity, which is, after all, nothing other than the search for a freedom within particular surroundings.
Rhizomatic thought / rhizome
18- the rhizome- prompting the knowledge that identity is no longer completely within the root but also in Relation.
Poetics of Relation
11- each and every identity is extended through a relationship with the Other
20- in the poetics of Relation, one who is errant (who is no longer a traveler, discoverer or conqueror) strives to know the totality of the world yet already knows he will never accomplish this - and knows that is precisely where the threatened beauty of the world resides.
Relation
34- What took place in the Caribbean, which could be summed up in the word creolization, approximates the idea of Relation for us as nearly as possible. It is not merely an encounter, a shock... a métissage, but a new and original dimension allowing each person to be there and elsewhere, rooted and open, lost in the mountains and free beneath the sea, in harmony and errantry.
131- The thing recused in every generalization of an absolute, even and especially some absolute secreted within this imaginary construct of Relation: that is, the possibility for each one at every moment to be both solitary and solitary there.
154- the thought of the Other is sterile without the other of Thought
155- The other of Thought is always set in motion by its confluences as a whole, in which each is changed by and changes the other.
157- Distancings are necessary to Relation and depend on it: like the coexistence of sea olive and manchineel.
Identity
141-142 The old idea of identity as root, whenever it proves hard to define or impossible to maintain, leads inexorably to the refuges of generalization provided by the universal as value.
142- Identity as a system of relation, as an aptitude for "giving-on-and-with" (donner-avec) is in contrast, a form of violence that challenges the generalizing universal and necessitates even more stringent demands for specificity.
Creolization
34- carries along...into the adventure of multilingualism and into the incredible explosion of cultures. ... It is the violent sign of their consensual, not imposed, sharing.
89- only exemplified by its processes and certainly not by the "contents" in which these operate.
-Creolizations bring into Relation but not to universalized the principles of creoleness regress toward negritudes, ideas of Frenchness, of Latinness, all generalizing concepts, more or less innocently.
Creole
69- in addition to this obligation to get around something, the Creole language has another, internal obligation: to renew itself in every instance on the basis of a series of forgettings. Forgetting, that is, integration, of what it starts from: the multiplicity of African languages on the one hand and European ones on the other, the nostalgia, finally, for the Caribbean remains of these.
93- The Creole language is a fragile and revealing écho-monde, born of a reality of relation and limited within this reality by its dependence.
-Echos-monde are not exacerbations that result directly from the convulsive conditions of Relation. They are at work in the matter of the world; they prophesy or illuminate it, divert it or conversely gain strength within it.
Plantation
65- one of the focal points for the development of present-day modes of Relation.
67- socially, the Plantation is not the product of a politics but the emanation of a fantasy.
74- The Plantation, like a laboratory, displays most clearly the opposed forces of the oral and the written at work - one of the most deep-rooted topics of our discussion in our contemporary landscape. It is there that multilingualism, that threatened dimension of our universe, can be observed for one of the first times, organically forming and disintegrating.
Earth
13- Relation to the earth is too immediate or too plundering to be linked with any preoccupation with identity - this claim to or consciousness of a lineage inscribed in a territory
151- An aesthetics of the earth? ... Yes. But an aesthetics of disruption and intrusion. ... Imagining the idea of love of the earth...with all the strength of charcoal fires or sweet syrup. Aesthetics of rupture and connection. ... Territory is defined by its limits, and they must be expanded. A land henceforth has no limits. That is the reason it is worth defending against every form of alienation. Aesthetics of a variable continuum, of an invariant discontinuum.
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