Culture functions as a precaution against thought’s chaotic journey

Evidence

Culture is the precaution of those who claim to think thought but who steer clear of its chaotic journey. Evolving cultures infer Relation, the overstepping that grounds their unit ydiversity. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 83

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives a working definition of culture as precaution against thought, key to Glissant’s whole framework.
• XREF: Connects to Glissant’s ‘Relation’ concept which the reader is tracing against Foucault/Spivak. — connects to: Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254; Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 399; Culture functions as a control mechanism governing behavior through approval — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 141

Broader Connections

• Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254
• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life #expands (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 399