Conquistador nomadism is a devastating longing for settlement

Evidence

Contrast this with invading nomadism, that of the Huns, for example, or the Conquistadors, whose goal was to conquel’ lands by exterminating their occupants. Neither prudent nor circular nomadism, it spares no effect. It is an absolu te forward projection: an arrowlike nomadism. But the descendants of the Huns, Vandals, or Visigoths, as indeed those of the Conquistadors, who established their clans, settled down bit by bit, melting into their conquests. Arrowlike nomadism is a devastating desire for settlement. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 119

Categorization

• XREF: The paradoxical ‘nomadism as desire for settlement’ crystallizes how identity-claims emerge from movement — feeds the reader’s Foucault lineage on the race-war narrative. — connects to: Invading nomadism is really a devastating drive toward settlement — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 119