ABSTRACT
This chapter presents "top ten+ list" of learnings from the ontological turn, arranged in scaffolding order that might be termed pedagogical and that also distills author's own comings to know. The length of each point is related less to its importance than to where elaboration might have something fresh to add. Social theory has been intensely language-oriented for some time now. Disillusionment with and/or a corrective to the linguistic turn goes by many names: the materialism, Deleuzean vitalism, the ontological turn. Post-humanist theories of the subject move from unified, conscious, and rational subject of humanism through the post-humanist, split, desiring subject to the Deleuzean subject. Along with the post-humanist subject, post-humanist theories of agency are key in resisting the gravitational pull of humanism. Framing theories of subjectivity and agency within intra-active, relational entanglements, Karen Barad's concept of agential realism interrupts both radical constructivism and the notion of independently existing individuals. Agency is enactment in possibilities and responsibilities of reconfiguring entanglements.
