The Being of Relation

Erin Manning

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English

Intellect Books
25 September 2025

Philosophy; History of ideas; Ethnic studies; Philosophy & theory of education

Series: Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education

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 lines to study the structures that hold whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moving beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment, Erin Manning looks into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relation—where identity is not singular but constantly unfolding.

This work examines how whiteness operates as a deeply ingrained social structure and introduces what Manning calls parapedagogies of resistance: alternative ways of learning and relating that challenge normative binaries. Drawing from critical race theory, neurodiversity studies, and philosophy, Being of Relation offers a framework for reimagining social connections outside of conventional categories.

By: Erin Manning
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781835951439
ISBN 10: 1835951430
Series: Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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) and 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 (3ecologies.org). Her artistic practices explores this transversality - a recent exhibition is entitled 100 Acres (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).

Reviews for The Being of Relation

‘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, USA