Erin Manning is professor of fine arts and philosophy at Concordia University. Recent books include Earth Unlimited - Understories (Intellect, forthcoming), The Being of Relation (Intellect 2025), Unsettled (minor compositions 2025), Out of the Clear (minor compositions 2022), and For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020). She works at the intersection of the three ecologies - the environmental, the conceptual and the social - with an emphasis on alter-economies, in the refusal of private property (3ecologies.org). Her artistic practices explores this transversality - a recent exhibition is entitled 100 Acres (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, 2024).