{"id":4015,"date":"2015-02-18T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:20:08","slug":"opacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/opacity\/","title":{"rendered":"opacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the philosopher \u00c3\u2030douard Glissant, Teju Cole writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinking about DeCarava\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work in this way reminds me of the philosopher \u00c3\u2030douard Glissant, who was born in Martinique, educated at the Sorbonne and profoundly involved in anticolonial movements of the \u00e2\u20ac\u212250s and \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s. One of Glissant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main projects was an exploration of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153opacity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Glissant defined it as a right to not have to be understood on others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 terms, a right to be misunderstood if need be. The argument was rooted in linguistic considerations: It was a stance against certain expectations of transparency embedded in the French language. Glissant sought to defend the opacity, obscurity and inscrutability of Caribbean blacks and other marginalized peoples. External pressures insisted on everything being illuminated, simplified and explained. Glissant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response: No. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/22\/magazine\/a-true-picture-of-black-skin.html?_r=0\" title=\"A True Picture of Black Skin\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A True Picture of Black Skin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my cherished quotes from Mary Poppins: &#8220;I never explain anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the philosopher \u00c3\u2030douard Glissant, Teju Cole writes: Thinking about DeCarava\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work in this way reminds me of the philosopher \u00c3\u2030douard Glissant, who was born in Martinique, educated at the Sorbonne and profoundly involved&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,100,102,99,101],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-white","tag-explain","tag-obscurity","tag-opacity","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}