Édouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant's right to opacity is this idea that people, cultures and forms of knowledge do not become fully visible, translatable or explainable, do not need to become visible or translatable in order to survive.

Regina Harsanyi, Frieze Week New York: Rhizome, MoMI, Karyn Nakamura

As for what the new reflective surface reveals, I stumbled upon this re-reading of Édouard Glissant the other day in Life in Progress by Hans Ulrich Obrist. He writes about archipelagic thought, where neither individual nor collective identities are fixed.

Sougwen Chung, Sougwen Chung on Aggregated Abandon