Relation is an ongoing process without presupposable prime elements or origin

Evidence

Relation, as we have emphasized, do es not act upon prime elements that are separable or reducible. If this were true, it would itself be reduced to sorne mechanics capable of being taken apart or reproduced. It does not precede itself in its action and presupposes no a priori. It is the boundless effort of the worId: to become realized in its totality, that is, to evade rest. One do es not first enter Relation, as one might enter a religion. One does not first conceive of it the way we have expected to conceive of Being. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 868

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Relation by negation: no a priori, no separable parts, no entering it like a religion.
• XREF: connects to: Relation is open active totality while static totality remains mere virtuality; Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866; No fixed symbolic relationships hold constant meaning across individual cases (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• No fixed symbolic relationships hold constant meaning across individual cases #corroborates (0.85)
• Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being #corroborates (0.85)
• Culture in Relation divides and specifies without claiming primordial status #corroborates (0.85) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 814
• Relation functions intransitively as an ontology, not as a link between terms. #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 197
• Order emerges from relations between things, not from an external observer’s frame #expands (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 538
• The For-itself is process rather than entity #corroborates (0.75)
• Meaning arises from relations of difference between terms #corroborates (0.75)
• Emancipated motifs reject relational justification and become pure instantaneous expression #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 72
• Relation resists proof and admits only endless poetic description #qualifies (0.70) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 879