"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

Degree Award in Reflective :: Reflexive Theory and Practice

Joint Hons. Running the Gauntlets in OverThinking

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See previous: 6th June 2010 - 'As one chapter closes another opens ...'

 
My source: Somerset House - 1st July 2026 M.C. Escher The Exhibition

It's not that I want a copy ...

... I just want to know what it means to you?

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Not to Be Reproduced, 1937 by Rene Magritte

Image: https://www.renemagritte.org/not-to-be-reproduced.jsp

Axiology, concept, horizon

"The hypothesis that thinking is founded in valuation requires for its development what philosophers call "axiology," the philosophic study of values. Of course, values are not phenomena that float into view, stimulating a "philosophy of values" to study them. Rather, it will be argued that values should be conceived of as the universal character of everything. Axiology, therefore, is the study of things with regard to their value dimension. An axiology of thinking is a study of the various roles of value in thinking." p.12.

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"An image is the horizon in terms of which our definitions of its contents makes sense.  It is like a mental picture of the rough outlines of the world: it handles information by giving each datum a position relative to the rough outlines." p.36.	"A concept is a way of mentally grouping various components whose combination is valuable because of a normative measure. The "real" identity of things comes from the normative measure of which their de facto harmony is an approximation." p.84.

Neville, R.C. (1981) Reconstruction of Thinking, New York: SUNY.

The Listener ... and remarkable hearing

The Listener
Giuseppe Penone

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	Giuseppe Penone, The Listener, 2008, installation view, Gaggiandre, Arsenale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, courtesy Vuslat Foundation
We used to till the land, cast our nets, now all we hear are the tills ...	Listeners Hearers - needed here.

My source:
Heathcote, E. 'Space - but not as we knew it', Venice Biennale, Life&Arts FT Weekend, 22-23 May 2021. p.1.

I see and hear you too Talio Havini, 'Deep listening across time', p.3.

Peine Perdue, Lost Cause* c/o Anaïs Charras

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Peine Perdue/Lost Cause (2021) Drypoint on copper, chine collé (Bunkoshi paper), 340 x 500 mm. Edition: 12

 

My source: Anaïs Charras [image], Artist's Eye. Printmaking Today, Vol 31, Issue 121, Spring 2022, p.50.

*We - the people - can, must and will prevail.

Related post: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2020/11/self-care-tree-girl.html

 

Descartes' asunder c/o Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

 I THINK therefore I AM       

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Original image: MindBody

© Pain Scale for Chronic Patients ‘MindBody’ by Sal Marx Fall 2021

In Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Copyright ©2022  ISSN 2766-628X

Previously: 'Cartesian'

Four Care Domains +Spiritual: c/o Blk Jks

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Photo: Brett Rubin

My source:

Honigmann, D. Critic's Choice, World, Blk Jks, Abantu/Before Humans, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 15-16 May, 2021, p.14.

Image:

https://www.ft.com/content/cf3b9aaf-a8e4-437a-8ac6-e39b45131f0f

Healthcare Systems & Services: Yes, attend to the battlements ...

 Yes, attend to the battlements, but 

don't neglect your 'Towers of Observation'?

 

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	"More than 27,000 tests have been carried out, with 459 positive results and eight deaths." p.20.
	"A report last year estimated that there were some 100,000 vacancies across the health service." p.21.

My source:

Britain. The NHS and covid19. Is it ready? Britain’s NHS is well suited to dealing with crises. But it is overstretched and faces an enormous task. The politics of pandemics, The Economist. Mar 14th 2020, pp.20-21. https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2020-03-14

Illustration by Luca D'Urbino: https://www.durbodesign.com/

Seeing red ... the colour of social progress and justice ...?

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	Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters

Photograph: Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters - Seeing red A member of a feminist collective paints the helmet of a riot police officer during a protest against gender and police violence in Mexico City. More than 1,000 Mexican women were murdered because of their gender last year, and there was also a rise in sexual harassment and assault by police.

World News, The Daily Telegraph [UK], 13 November 2020, p.17.

http://www.toyasarnojordan.com/

Photo: https://uk.reuters.com/news/picture/top-photos-of-the-day-idUKRTX898PP