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).

‘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.’

• Errant LinesTentative Constructings Toward a Holding in PlaceBlack BeachHears in Red, Sees in WetWhen You FallThe Being of RelationParapedagogies of ResistanceConcepts Leaving Traces: A Running GlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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).

‘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.’

• Errant LinesTentative Constructings Toward a Holding in PlaceBlack BeachHears in Red, Sees in WetWhen You FallThe Being of RelationParapedagogies of ResistanceConcepts Leaving Traces: A Running GlossaryWorks CitedIndex