Rapid adaptive change can preserve an underlying fixed identity

Evidence

Here acceleration becomes the most important virtue. Not the deliberately forgetful haste prevailing everywhere but an intense acuteness of thought, quick to change its heading. The capabiIity ofvarying speed and direction at any moment, without, however, changing its nature, its intention, or its will, might be perhaps the optimal principle for such an economic systern. Course changes would be dependent on a harsh analysis of reality. As for steadfastness of intention and will, this we would forge as we come to know our cultures. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 649

Categorization

• DEFINE: A candidate definition of how cultural identity can vary course (detour/ruse) while preserving a constant intention — potentially relevant to whether strategic identity maneuvering avoids collapse.
• XREF: connects to: Prior administrative experience and a usable past equipped MSzP elites to regenerate — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 362; A language can achieve enduring fixity through rapid self-change — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 513; Self-destruction at each change is what enables identity to persist — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A language can achieve enduring fixity through rapid self-change #exemplifies (0.85) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 513
• Self-destruction at each change is what enables identity to persist #exemplifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 245