Model making tries to fix Relation’s movement into dynamic structures.

Evidence

Repressed in this manner, ideological thought (the need to analyze, understand, transforrn) invents new forms for itself and plays tricks with profusion: it projects itself into futurology, which also has no limits. It attempts, for exarnple, to create a synthesis with likely applications from the sciences, which gradually leads into theories of model making. The models dairn to base the rnatter of Relation in relationships; in other words, they daim to catch its movement in the act and then translate this in terms of dynamic or energized structures. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 871

Categorization

• XREF: Glissant’s critique of model making parallels Adorno on how systematization kills the non-identical — the Frankfurt link recurs in this reader’s library. — connects to: Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866; Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being; Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life #complicates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778
• Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being #qualifies (0.75)