Opacity is the term for whatever protects the Diverse within Relation

Evidence

Thus, that which protects the Diverse we calI opacity. And henceforth we shaH caH Relation ‘s imaginary a transparency, one that for ages (ever since the Pre-Soc ra tics? or the Mayans? in Timbuktu already? ever since the pre-Islamic poets and the lndian storyteHers?) has had premonitions of its unforeseeable whirl. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 363

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names opacity as protection of the Diverse — not secrecy but a non-reducible right to remain opaque — exactly the reader’s target concept.