Relation is open active totality while static totality remains mere virtuality

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Let us repeat this, chaotically: Relation neither relays nor links afferents that can be assimilated or allied only in their principle, for the simple reason that it always differentiates among them concretely and diverts them from the totalitarian-because its work always changes all the elements composing it and, consequently, the resulting relationship, which then changes themaIl over again. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Creolized totality is ordered yet free of hierarchy and essence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 487; Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866; Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being (+5 more)

Related

• Relation differs from totality by being self-active movement rather than static closure (similarity 0.93)
• Relation is an ongoing process without presupposable prime elements or origin (similarity 0.90)
• Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them (similarity 0.90)
• Relation is a self-generating system that produces without yielding static Being. (similarity 0.90)
• Totality thought as finality blocks the relational whole it purports to achieve. (similarity 0.87)
• Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being (similarity 0.85)
• Chaos in Glissant’s sense is Relation, a totality whose order is perpetually in flux (similarity 0.84)
• Relation dissolves fixed grammatical and subjective positions into mutual exchange. (similarity 0.83)
• Relation functions intransitively as an ontology, not as a link between terms. (similarity 0.83)
• Creolized totality is ordered yet free of hierarchy and essence (similarity 0.81)
• Relation resists proof and admits only endless poetic description (similarity 0.80)
• Model making tries to fix Relation’s movement into dynamic structures. (similarity 0.80)
• Relation exceeds any single level of cultural analysis. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Relation constantly differentiates and transforms its components rather than merely linking them #expands (0.90) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 866
• Relation is an ongoing process without presupposable prime elements or origin #expands (0.90) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 868
• Relation forms a self-sustaining generative system rather than a static being #expands (0.88)
• Totalizing approaches a boundary it can never actually cross #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775
• Pure subjectivity pushed to its limit flips into a new objectivity and total order #complicates (0.75)