Elsewhere is an internal critical stance of refusing accommodation

Evidence

I believe an elsewhere can and must be found here: in our efforts to refuse to accommodate and adjust to the status quo and in those very small moments when we make choices that place us outside of the norms and expectations that confine us, when we cultivate the capacity to say no. In both instances, we stand askance to the way things are. That affords us the critical distance to imagine our lives and, hopefully, the country differently. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 431

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the reader’s silence-reading: refusing to accommodate as an act of standing apart, consistent with the idea that creative thought requires clearing prior mental assumptions. — connects to: The for-itself’s lack is internal to it, not imposed from outside
• SEED: Essay angle: the ‘capacity to say no’ as a democratic practice — from Bartleby to mass refusal.