Amassing commonplaces may be the methodologically right approach to worldwide relation

Evidence

My excuse for accumulating so many commonplaces about these tendencies so readily discernible in literature written in French is that amassing commonplaces is, perhaps, the right approach to my real subject-the entanglements of worldwide relation-and that almost everything that has been said about these tendencies, concerning the poetics of Relation, has been done so in a manner that is fragmentary, reticent, and stubbornly blind. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 225

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Glissant’s anti-systematic method of drifting/errantry rather than totalizing theory, relevant to whether ‘strategic essentialism’ can be sustained without a fixed theory of identity. — connects to: Archipelagos naturally illustrate the thought of Relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 238; Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213

Broader Connections

• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213
• Archipelagos naturally illustrate the thought of Relation. #expands (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 238