but my name is Jacob and I am very very into Edouard Glissant and want to make a site dedicated to all of his wonderful work, as well as what it has inspired. i'm not sure what this will be yet, but I think that there's a there here, if only to drop quotes.
"The question is whether one should urgently consider a true integration, beyond piecemeal technical progress, of the spirit of this technology ... to adapt this spirit to the emergent cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America ... A concerted effort of this kind can combat, in small communities helplessly given over to the colonizing force of assimilation, total dependence." - Edouard Glissant, The Known, the Uncertain
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Edouard Glissant once drove down interstate ten from louisiana to mississippi. this was the closest we have been physically, though we were temporally separated by at least twenty years. more recently, Edouard Glissant lived within the spatial imagination of the place that allowed him to imagine. in this sense, he is related to martinique in the fakest sense of the word. read the black beach. ah, there is no real, but that is at least not fake. i do not care to speak for him. he has a right to opacity. but the question should brush up against that opacity, otherwise it is no question at all.
"I had taken advantage of that discussion on cinema to ask Glissant if there were ways to simplify his ideas for a wider presentation in American universities, and if my film might be one of the means of that effort. He answered that his ideas were already simple; what was needed most for the Americans, and many French people, was to change their frame of mind from one of globalization to mondialité, or worldliness. He suggested that we needed to enter into a state of world and mind that was less prone to discovery and conquest, and to espouse a philosophy of relation that looked at our differences not as that which divide us, but which link us individually and collectively in the ToutMonde, where the communication between our intuitions knew no frontiers of language, territory, or power. As for my film, Glissant said, looking at me and smiling, if he were I, he’d wait until we were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and point the camera at the mass of water, its abyssal expanse. That would be the whole film in one shot, for him." - Manthia Diawara, Édouard Glissant’s Worldmentality: An Introduction to One World in Relation
follow to the black beach