Totalities are approached through accumulated duration, not flash-like revelation.

Evidence

We no longer reveal totality within ourselves by lightning flashes. We approach it through the accumulation of sediments. The poetics of duration (another leitmotiv), one of the first principles of the sacred, founding books of community, reappears to take up the relay from the poetics of the mornent. Lightning flashes are the shivers of one who desires or dreams of a totality that is impossible or yet to come; duration urges on those who attempt to live this totality, when dawn shows through the linked histories of peoples. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 234

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘accumulation of sediments’ versus ‘lightning flash’ distinction bears on whether holding identity ironically is an event-like stance (collapsing into residence) or a durational practice — relevant to the reader’s question about sustaining strategic essentialism. — connects to: The excess of time on time may itself be something other than time.; Temporalized totality is never achieved but flees from itself.; Spirit’s change is a qualitative leap, not gradual accumulation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1253 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Temporalized totality is never achieved but flees from itself. #expands (0.85)
• Spirit’s change is a qualitative leap, not gradual accumulation. #contradicts (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1253
• The excess of time on time may itself be something other than time. #expands (0.80)
• Time is not the container of becoming but is itself the becoming #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 257