Robert Heinze<p>The sea in <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Normandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Normandy</span></a> looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Cond%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Condé</span></a>, <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/Glissant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glissant</span></a>, and a book on regional entanglements in the <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/transatlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transatlantic</span></a> slave trade and the slave economies. <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p><p>Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”: <br>“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”</p>