The Being of Relation
$41.53
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2026
Summary
Undoing the world whiteness built: excavating the ways whiteness and neurotypicality structure experience and offering a radical vision for moving beyond them.
How does whiteness shape the world? How does neurotypicality police how bodies move, think, and relate? And what happens when we shift our focus from individuality to relation itself?
The Being of Relation brings together Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation and Fernand Deligny’s errant l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781835951446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1835951449 |
| Author: | Erin Manning |
| Publisher: | Intellect |
| Imprint: | Intellect Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education |
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Critics Review
‘Erin Manning attunes to our wandering ways to world and thought in this achingly timely offering. How do we, and how might we, choreograph and dance ways with each other beyond the one-two lockstep of recognitive intersubjectivity and the neurotypicality this atrophic sociality is indexed to? The Being of Relation might reject the epithet “landmark” but in its tracings of such non-insistent intimacies, this luminous book is an exceedingly resonant landing site.’
– Fumi Okiji, associate professor, Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, USAErin Manning
Erin Manning is professor of fine arts and philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Recent books include:
- For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020)
- Out of the Clear (2022)
- The Being of Relation (forthcoming)
She works at the intersection of the three ecologies – the environmental, the conceptual, and the social – with an emphasis on the aesthetico-political. Her artistic practices explore this transversality, with a recent exhibition entitled 100 Acres (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).
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