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For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Hardcover)
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For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Hardcover)
Series: Thought in the Act
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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 Felix 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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