Early on in his essay collection Caribbean Discourse, Édouard Glissant unfurls a living, spasmodic topography of colonial and postcolonial Martinique. A tangle of green that the roads still do not penetrate winds into the arid grooves of pineapple plots, into the undulations of cane fields, the yawn of the setting sun on a ruined great house, a field of leaves soaked in blood, decaying factories, and the agitated frontier of the beach. The pasts of enslavement, rebellion, and indentureship coexist in the landscape with ongoing labor strikes, land seizures, and the expansion of tourism infrastructure. Distinctions between the markers of human and environmental time, between built and natural features, collapse, giving way to a collective sensorium of historical activations.