Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation

Abstract The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of world as a relational wholeness. Alongside rise Anthropocene debates claimed incapacity post-positivism account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, text embarks on two main goals. On one hand, sketches brief genealogy processual thinking, with focus International Relations (IR) literature. other move forward critical engagements entangled grand narrative. To this end, exposes problematic ontological assumption often overlooked by both fetishists their critics: entanglements are infallibly generative, that is say, they deterministically precipitate further beings events. In doing so, invites IR scholarship explore non-generative encounters hence address possibility being without in relation. Drawing from an unorthodox line research, unearths non-relational, or beyond-the-relational, instances, whose engagement can only be materialised through logics subjugation. For mode being, texts hints, non-engagement, refusal, withdrawal become form political resistance survival, thus distorting controversial association between subjectivity emancipation.