Geocultural aggregates shift so fast they cannot ground fixed ontology.

Evidence

But, in any case, the speecl with which geocultural entitics, aggregates f()l’med through cncounters and kinships, change in the world is relative. For example, there is a real situational community among the creolizing cultures of the Caribbean and thosc of the lndian Ocean (in Réunion or Seychelles). Hovvever, therc is nothing to say that accelerated evolution willnot soon entail equally powerful and decisive encounters between the Caribbean region and Brazil, or among the smaller Antillean islands (both Frenchand English-speaking), that wiIllead to the formation of new zones of relational community. It would not be possible to base ontological thinking on the existence ofentities such as these, whose very nature is to vary tremendously within Relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 710

Categorization

• XREF: The flux of creolized communities as evidence against ontological fixity is a candidate empirical mechanism for loosening identity without collapse. — connects to: Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field; Progress narratives fail to explain fast cultural changes like crazes — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 520; Cultural meaning can never be finally fixed because signs constantly slip and get reappropriated — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 834 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field #corroborates (0.95)
• Cultures are never fixed or originary but constantly changed by movement and history #corroborates (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1204
• Cultural meaning can never be finally fixed because signs constantly slip and get reappropriated #corroborates (0.88) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 834
• Cultural elements that appear to persist can secretly shift their social meaning and function #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 993
• Orient and West are unstable human constructs, not fixed realities #exemplifies (0.80)
• Progress narratives fail to explain fast cultural changes like crazes #exemplifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 520
• Objectified cultural forms always lag behind the life that created them #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 83