Non-anthropocentric posthumanism and the stakes of relationality

This paper examines the ontological underpinnings of non-anthropocentric posthumanism through an analysis of the work of Jane Bennett and Rosi Braidotti. I argue that their commitment to relational holism tacitly undermines their stated commitment to individuals by subordinating them to their relations. Drawing on Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology and Jacques Derrida’s commitment to a “Leibnizianism without God,” I propose a model of “non-relationist relationality” that preserves the radical alterity and individuality of entities while enabling contingent interactions.