Only interlocking cycles, not essences, are stable in Relation

Evidence

The most recent developments of science invite us, therefore, to venture in our quest beyond the laws laid down by its philosophies. For a long time we have divined both order and disorder in the world and projected these as measure and excess. But every poetics led us to believe something that, of course, is not wrong: that excessiveness of order and a measured disorder exist as weIl. The only discernibIe stabilities in Relation have to do with the interdependence of the cycles operative there, how their corresponding patterns of movement are in tune. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 471

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that only interdependence of cycles is stable resonates with Foucault’s account of the race-struggle counter-history displacing sovereign essence-based history with a relational field.