To Read: Glissant/Opacity

From Frieze: "By emphasizing language and literature, Glissant gave his global political project of creolization an aesthetic dimension. At the same time, he provided the concepts of French Post-structuralism-rhizome, difference, alterity-with a fresh playground and an exemplary story: the diaspora of African slaves, the archipelago, the 'Creole garden' where, in contrast to the monocultural plantation, a diverse range of plants protect and support one another...
( I love that idea.)

...'The Thinking of the Opacity of the World’ – is the eleventh chapter in Glissant’s last major publication Philosophie de la Relation. Poésie en étendue (Philosophy of the Relation. Poetry in extension, 2009). The 150-page book – an extension of his earlier Poétique de la Relation (1990; Poetics of Relation, 1997) – was celebrated by French critics as the culmination of a lifetime of thinking, writing, resisting. Throughout, Glissant uses not only the eponymous philosophy and poetry but also aphorisms, quotations, chronicles, recitations, even conversations."