Relation dissolves fixed grammatical and subjective positions into mutual exchange.

Evidence

Glissant’s intent, finally, is to realize Relation in concrete terms-in which language is made of rocks and words and in which the future can be made to open for the Antilles by beating a time other than the linear, sequential order of syntax. Verb, noun, subject, object, are not fixed in their places because, in the words of Glissant, “in Relation every subject is an object and every object a subject.” — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 63

Categorization

  • XREF: This is the grammatical/linguistic corollary of what the reader tracks as loosening fixed identity without collapse — ‘every subject is an object and every object a subject’ — connects to Spivak and Glissant’s creolization mechanism. — connects to: The negation relation with the Other is reciprocal unlike that with things; Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866; Subject and object letting-go of fixed positions liberates previously imprisoned philosophical energy (+2 more)

Broader Connections