Cultural outcomes within Relation are unpredictable and resist fixed hierarchy

Evidence

Within this problematic, beyond decisions made by power and domination, nobody knows how cultures are going to react in relation to one another nor which of their elements will be the dominant ones, or thought of as such. In this fullsense aIl cultures are equal within Relation. And altogether they could not be considered as its prime elements. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 827

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the premise of ‘Relation’ itself as unpredictable cultural interplay beyond domination — a conceptual framing the reader’s strategic essentialism question must contend with.
• XREF: connects to: In Relation-ship legitimacy is wholly supplanted by contingency — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 350; Cultural elements that appear to persist can secretly shift their social meaning and function — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 993; Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field #corroborates (0.90)
• Cultural elements that appear to persist can secretly shift their social meaning and function #corroborates (0.88) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 993
• Chaos in Glissant’s sense is Relation, a totality whose order is perpetually in flux #expands (0.82) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 660
• Culture in Relation divides and specifies without claiming primordial status #complicates (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 814