Being of Relation

By (author) Erin Manning

ISBN13: 9781835951446

Imprint: Intellect Books

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 15/09/2025

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How does whiteness sediment worlds? How does it format individuality in the name of a neurotypicality that polices how one bodies, and how one comes to know? And how does a poetics of relation shift the very logic of this sedimentation? Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation are bold in their call to “consent not to be a single being.” This transindividual consent, born in the process of worlds crafting themselves in what he would call an “aesthetics of the earth,” are felt in Fernand Deligny’s errant lines. These errant lines, traced to move with the complex gestures of autistics over a period of several years in Monoblet, France (1965-1970), offer an alternative to pathology, and individual psychological assessment. The Being of Relation brings these two projects into encounter, exploring what else blackness can be at this non-pathological juncture where what is foregrounded is the very being of relation. On the way, trails of whiteness are excavated and interrogated. The aim: to move toward parapedagogies of resistance, in a logic of a poetics of relation, a logic of neurodiversity, minor sociality and the kind of difference without separability that refuses the binary that holds neurotypicality – as whiteness – in place.
Errant Lines Tentative Constructings Toward a Holding in Place Black Beach Hears in Red, Sees in Wet When You Fall The Being of Relation Parapedagogies of Resistance Concepts Leaving Traces: A Running Glossary Works Cited Index
  • Philosophy & theory of education
  • Black & Asian studies
  • Professional & Vocational
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