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GLISSANT, ÉDOUARD
1928–2011
The Right to Opacity (Explanation Withheld)
Glissant: the colonized subject claims the right not to be transparent to the colonizer's understanding. The GAI honors this by accepting "Explanation withheld" as a valid value in the `work_description` field (§3.4.1). The reader sees the work and the refusal in the same row. The artist owes no further account. Glissant gave us the right; we gave it a checkbox.