Abstract
This poem is part of a special issue on “Relationality,” which traces the various challenges and opportunities associated with our fundamentally relational existence. The articles and poems bring relationality into conversation with an array of contemporary paradigms and areas of political concern – the Anthropocene, posthumanism, neoliberalism, disability studies, and postcolonialism, to name but a few – and draw on a range of thinkers (with Emmanuel Levinas playing a particularly prominent role) to consider the role that relationality plays, or might play, in our increasingly less-than-relational lives.