Relation exceeds any single level of cultural analysis.

Evidence

But Relation is not to be confused with the cultures we are discussing nor with the economy of their internaI relationships nor with the projection of their external relationships nor even with the intangible results of the intricate involvement of aIl internaI relationships with aIl possible external relationships. Nor is it to be confused with sorne marvelous accident that might suddenly occur apart from any relationship, the known unknown, in which chance would be the magnet. Relation is aU these things at once. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 857

Categorization

• DEFINE: Negative definition of Relation: it is neither the internal structure of one culture nor external relationships between cultures nor their sum — it is all at once. This bears on whether creolization can dissolve fixed identity without a substitute essence.
• XREF: connects to: Coexisting cultures cannot be ranked by any single historical clock. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 822; Philosophy’s territory cannot be framed from a single cultural perspective. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 383

Broader Connections

• Philosophy’s territory cannot be framed from a single cultural perspective. #corroborates (0.85) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 383