"Poetics of Relation" by Édouard Glissant

'The Slave Trade came through the cramped doorway of the slave ship, leaving a wake like that of crawling desert caravans. It might be drawn like this:

African countries to the East; the lands of America to the West. This creature is in the image of a fibril.

African languages became deterritorialized, thus contributing to creolization in the West. This is the most completely known confrontation between the powers of the written word and the impulses of orality. The only written thing on slave ships was the account book listing the exchange value of slaves. Within the ship's space the cry of those deported was stifled, as it would be in the realm of the Plantations. This confrontation still reverberates to this day.' p.5.

'Not just a specific knowledge, appetite, suffering, and delight of one particular people, not only that, but knowledge of the Whole, greater from having been at the abyss and freeing knowledge of Relation within the Whole.' p.8.

 
Édouard Glissant. (1990, 2025) The Open Boat. Poetics of Relation. Dublin: Penguin.

The above image runs within the text in the book.

My image source: https://annstreetgallery.org/Nolan-Oswald-Dennis

John Gerrard's "Western Flag" 2017

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http://westernflag.johngerrard.net

John Gerrard - Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017

My source: Twitter

Alliance for Responsible Citizenship

Last month on two occasions, I came across the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (which is a registered company). 

In the Sunday Times, "Philippa Stroud: ‘Everyone’s moaning — I think humanity can sort things out’":

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/philippa-stroud-alliance-responsible-citizenship-km8z26b8b

and Financial Times "'Part megachurch, part political rally: inside London’s ‘rightwing Davos’".

https://www.ft.com/content/7ff1614c-38a2-4b5c-81d3-80cea1196dad 

Apparently, a right wing, conservative movement with a three-day conference, one commentary suggested it has struggled to define itself, which is understandable given the ongoing (increasing?) prompts for its creation.

You recognise early on in your nursing career and not just as a student (pre-Project 2000 UK), but as a Nursing Assistant that character is a key element in your professional development. By the time you qualify, you more accurately see that without a doubt it is your formative education that is a critical factor. That and your 'home' circumstances - and not necessarily the two-parents good, one bad formulation. This is why with students excluded from school, society is taking a wrong turn. There is obviously a problem but what is the 'correct' approach?

An 'alliance' already suggests a given level of organisation. By definition 'grassroots movements' must struggle to establish and retain their identity.

This is a project Hodges' model can help address - with a balanced but not necessarily a neutral output.

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HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

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identity personality attitude aptitude character faith individual beliefs religious engagement courage hope threshold concepts my destiny well-being trust	future physical thresholds  waste climate change circular economy AI truth - information disorder science technology PAST - work - FUTURE our future destiny - (what does the clock say?) future generations?
grassroots social movement arts family community culture - diversity social - cultural identity society - support social change social capital social contract social values our shared destiny our children's children welfare - living wage employment - leisure quality of life	power political systems past policy UK: 'Troubled Families' economics organisations, institutions corporations political (manifest! - colonialism ) destiny policy systems political engagement health of leaders trust international law - justice control of fraud, corruption, crime human rights political thresholds

Three Norths <----> Souths too...?

Map norths converge on Dorset village in historic first (BBC News)

Ordnance Survey said the historic triple alignment made landfall in Langton Matravers near Swanage on Wednesday

"A small village has made map reading history and become the first place where true, magnetic and grid north have met at a single point.

According to the Ordnance Survey (OS) the historic triple alignment made landfall in Langton Matravers, near Swanage in Dorset, on Wednesday.

It will stay converged for three and a half years as it travels through the UK.

OS spokesman Mark Greaves said it was not related to climate change.

Records held by the OS, Britain's national mapping service, date back to the 1930s but Mr Greaves said this was the 'first time ever in British mapping history' the three norths had aligned.

'Magnetic north has a habit of wandering around, but this is unusual, it's not been in this orientation for hundreds of years,' he added" 

Continued...

Map image: http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/maps/england/4876/dorset/langton-matravers.html 

Previously: 'compass' & 'SOUTH'

The Socio-Politics of Migration...?

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Julian Simpson (2018) Migrant architects of the NHS - South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s). University of Manchester Press.

Alex Matthews-King. The Independent, Jeremy Hunt backs special visa for foreign people coming to work for NHS. 9 May, 2018.

My source (book): Noted in Blackwells, Manchester, £25 from £75.

Grid Corrections at a Crossroads

Photographer Gerco de Ruijter's project explores the places where the highway system goes astray, thanks to the challenges of imposing a rectilinear grid onto the spherical surface of the planet https://t.co/xGxTzA5ECi pic.twitter.com/JtdasVsgfJ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 8, 2018

or Grid Care Corrections at a Crossroads?

GERCO DE RUIJTER

My source:
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/961542009193402368

Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine

The Wellcome Collection

‘Woman Swinging Below an Aubergine Plant’, watercolour with pencil, 19th century (Wellcome Collection)

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oral traditions learning teacher - student	3000 years botany turmeric
culture, history, community knowledge,  traditional medicine	West - contested - East prices scope of patents

My sources: November London visit research and FT.com Magazine, 28-29 October 2017, pp.20-22.

Image: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/turmeric-ayurveda-india-health-tradition-healing-a8060476.html

Seeking a sense of Direction: Holistic Compass

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Seeking a sense of direction
Seeking  a sense of  humanity  and care for all?	Seeking a sense of direction  and find yourself here? Is this really All you can see? You may be lost?

BBC Radio 4: Living With The Gods

I-dentity: How the Individual-Group runs...

individual

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

questions of identity →
	← politics of identity

My source:
Grayling, A.C. (2009) Liberty In The Age Of Terror - A Defense Of Civil Liberties And Enlightenment Values. London: Bloomsbury. p.35.

"As a contribution to understanding why liberty matters, one has to understand why questions of identity, and the politics of identity, constitute a threat to liberty."

Book: Selfie

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Selfie by Will Storr	The Cellfie too...

Cellfie image: The Telegraph

EAST-WEST: meetings of minds, bodies and souls

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? WEST ------------------------------------------- EAST ?

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

north

"The Philosopher" by Ludwig Deutsch (1905) from the collection of Shafik Gabr.

East West Dialogue:
http://eastwestdialogue.org/

Image source and title link:

NY Times Robin Pogrebin November 29, 2012
Seeing Orientalist Art as an Aid to East-West Dialogue

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/seeing-orientalist-art-as-an-aid-to-east-west-dialogue/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

My source:

Financial Times 23 November 2013, p.6