Relation cannot be grounded in any apposition of Being to beings

Evidence

We shall guard against suggesting, parabolically, that beings would be solid and Being volatile nor that a variable mass of beings would assume, in contrast, the infinity of Being. We must, rather, abandon this apposition of Being and beings: renounce the fruitful maxim whereby Being is relation, to consider that Relation alonc is relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 856

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Relation negatively against the Being/beings opposition, as elsewhere the key move is that relations are constitutive rather than derivative.
• XREF: Connects directly to Deleuze’s rejection of grounded Being and to Spivak’s project of refusing a fixed essentialist grounding beneath strategic identity claims. — connects to: Space is the nothingness of relation seized by a being that relates; Possession is an internal bond of being, not an external relation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1366; Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 429 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Possession is an internal bond of being, not an external relation #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1366
• Space is the nothingness of relation seized by a being that relates #expands (0.80)
• Being and non-being relate only through an internal nihilating bond #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 429