This cafe life I’ve forced myself into is gruelling. Sometimes I have zero appetite for talking; and yet, I love a cup of coffee. Hot, bitter, mellowed-out to a nice tan with some milk.
Can I get away with using Glissant as the source of my Indigenous cosmology?
- Mound Builders
- Architecture as cosmology?
- Architecture is more metaphysical than the other media?
If we are discuss Indigenous philosophy, we should also discuss written versus oral language. For Glissant, this is at the heart of colonial conflict. Nomadic versus arrow-like reason.
Monuments facilitate inter/intra-tribal social/economic/ideological organization. They are sites of liturgy (public ritual). They use ad-hoc standardized models that are easy to understand across tribal cultures. Their construction depends on a degree of co-operation that implies federated layers of micro- and macro-societies.
These monuments are ritual sites that hold sacred objects; but they’re also pragmatic, functioning as food caches and landmarks. People lived on-site (sometimes). The monuments mark local resources, and people were expected to regularly return to the site.