Wandering and drift are hunger towards the world, it is what moves us to trace paths across the planet. Drift is also one’s ability to be available to all kind of possible migrations. Drive, which is a word derived from drift, became a Creole expression. The drive is the fatal, insuppressible tendency to movement as well as the inability to impose, to take domineering decisions. Wandering is what leads one to drive away system’s thought and trade it with thoughts of inquiry on reality, thoughts of shift, that are thoughts of ambiguity and uncertainty as well, preserving us from system’s thoughts and their intollerance and sectarianism.
Eduard Glissant Introduction à une poetique du divers
Paris, 1996, Roma 1998
