Department of Comparative Literature2024-11-092017978-3-319-63263-6978-3-319-63262-910.1007/978-3-319-63263-6_8http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63263-6_8https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/10375This chapter argues that the notion of an ecological text and its entangled taxonomies demand a revised readership, one that prevents us from provoking irreversible ruptures in the intricate ecological text and enables us to envisage ecological forms of co-inhabitation. If there is no biological, ontological, or philosophical context that can escape the movement of différance, then the ontology of being is a relational ontology of being-with-one-another and of contact. Contemporary critics and poets replace the human (master) narrative with a more complex account of material and discursive forces, and radically change the way we conceptualize ontic and semantic boundaries. Entanglements regenerate the ecological text toward a future without a teleological content. Rather than reacting to this futurity with anxiety, we may benefit from contemplating the ethical implications of this eco-ontological ambiguity.Environmental studiesLiterary theoryCriticismLiteratureBook Chapter4319817000082541