I have always said that place is crucial. There is no globalisation on the basis of a series of dilutions into thin air. Because if there is dilution, there is no relation. Relation can weave itself only between entities that continue to exist…The true relation is not from the particular to the universal, but from the Place to the world-totality, which is not totalitarian but the opposite: diversity.

p69 – Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity, The Glissant Translation Project, trans. Celia Britton, Liverpool University Press, 2020