Errantry is directed wandering that always positions one in relation to the other.

Evidence

Here Glissant stresses overtones of sacred mission rather than aimless wandering; errance, its ending linked for the contemporary reader with deconstruction’s validation of difJémnce, deflects the negative associations between errer (to wander) and erreur (error). Directed by Relation, errantry follows neither an arrowlike trajectory nor one that is circular and repetitive, nor is it mere wandering-idle roaming. Wandering, one might become los t, but in errantry one knows at every moment where one is-at every moment in relation to the other. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 45

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely distinguishes errantry from mere wandering — key technical term for the reader’s detour/ruse/opacity project.
• XREF: This non-loss-bearing wandering is a candidate collective practice of holding identity loosely, relevant to whether strategic essentialism can be sustained collectively. — connects to: Errantry is a directed relational wandering that never loses its bearings — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 45; Errantry can only be told indirectly through detour; Errantry toward the Other can recover rather than reject the self — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 151

Broader Connections

• Errantry is a directed relational wandering that never loses its bearings #corroborates (0.95) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 45
• Errantry can only be told indirectly through detour #expands (0.75)
• Errantry toward the Other can recover rather than reject the self #expands (0.75) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 151