For a Pragmatics of the Useless Paperback / softback
by Erin Manning
Part of the Thought in the Act series
Paperback / softback
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What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now.
What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps.
In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of value, not for want of potential but for carrying an excess of it.
The figures are various: the infrathin, the artful, proprioceptive tactility, neurodiversity, black life.
It is around the latter two that a central refrain echoes: "All black life is neurodiverse life." This is not an equation, but an "approximation of proximity." Manning shows how neurotypicality and whiteness combine to form a normative baseline for existence.
Blackness and neurodiversity "schizz" around the baseline, uselessly, pragmatically, figuring a more-than of life living.
Manning, in dialogue with Félix Guattari and drawing on the black radical tradition's accounts of black life and the aesthetics of black sociality, proposes a "schizoanalysis" of the more-than, charting a panoply of techniques for other ways of living and learning.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages, 30 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2020
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- ISBN:9781478011071
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages, 30 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478011071
