Relation requires a self-break from linear drive before global consent is possible.

Evidence

When we say that, henceforth, this poe tics of Relation interweaves and no longer projects, that it inscribes itself in a circularity, we are not referring to a circuit, a line of energy curved back onto itself. Trajectory, even bent or inflected, no longer applies. … They cannot, however, “give-on-and-with” until they reach the point at which they go beyond assenting to their linear drive alone and consent to global dynamics-practicing a self-break and a reconnection. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 232

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that Relation’s circularity has volume and is not a closed trajectory — and that entering it demands ‘a self-break and a reconnection,’ never mere projection.