This thinker argued that people have a right to “opaqueness”, to not be fully understood, while also championing a concept metissage, or mixture. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Martinican thinker who distinguished between archipelagic and continental thinking in his philosophy of relation, which built off of his earlier poetics in Le Discours Antillais ("luh dees-KOOR ahn-tee-YAY").
ANSWER: Édouard Glissant
[10m] Glissant argued that a right to opacity is needed because a right to this concept is insufficient protection from transparent continental western universalism. Gilles Deleuze wrote a work titled for this concept and repetition.
ANSWER: difference [accept Difference and Repetition]
[10e] Glissant’s distinction between archipelagic and continental thinking was influenced by Deleuze and Guattari’s distinction between the rhizome and models based on this type of plant, often used to model hierarchical relationships.
ANSWER: trees
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