This presentation discusses some weaknesses of relational approaches in human geography. Relational orientations have gained broad support among geographers and the accompanying scholarly renewal has in general resulted in fruitful co-inspiration, for example, in the form of impressive post-dualistic articulations. However, relational emphases, especially those informed by the philosophies of immanence, carry the risk of being narrowed into cursory excursions on the immediate geographies of what happens. This presentation critically reflects upon the straightforward import and application of conceptualisations developed by ‘immanent thinkers’ and is concerned about the lack of sensitivity of  ‘relationalists’ when it comes to socio-spatial discontinuities and circles of particularity. Some features of non-social and de-territorial thinking are pointed up and criticised. The presentation also shows in what type of settings the relational approach becomes a too general view to explain satisfactorily the earthly co-being of humans and non-humans, and presents alternative ‘lines of flight ’.