Always More Than One

“Erin Manning’s book offers a philosophy of neurodiverse perception, encouraging us ‘not to begin with the pre-chunked.’ How ironic, then, that the impulse to categorize and to pathologize is generally seen as evidence of the normate’s proper functioning. In Manning’s splendid book, autism comes to signify not a disorder but a relational’ dance of attention,’ one that refuses to strand any entity at the margin of our concern.” - Ralph James Savarese, coeditor of “Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity,” a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.

Erin Manning is University Research Chair in Philosophy and Relational Art and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She is the author of Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy and Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty and coauthor, with Brian Massumi, of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (forthcoming).