Discovery logic erases itself within the network of Relation

Evidence

But Relation does not “grasp” any such antecedent. The terra incognita lying before us is an inexhaustible sphere of variations born of the contact among cultures. Disclosure applies to this inexhaustibility in an expansion of a different sort. “Discovery,” projection, arrowlike nomadism, or project of knowledge, becornes lost there or gains through the network. The powers of domination prosper there, but legitimacies are dead. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts the European ‘discovery/projection/knowledge-project’ mode against relation-as-network, central to the reader’s detour/opacity vocabulary.
• XREF: Directly parallels Glissant’s rhizome identity theory being traced against Foucault’s and Spivak’s frameworks. — connects to: Objects are only knowable within their network of relations — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 373; Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866; Discovery transforms its object rather than merely revealing it — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 217

Broader Connections

• Objects are only knowable within their network of relations #corroborates (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 373
• Discovery transforms its object rather than merely revealing it #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 217
• Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them #qualifies (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866