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For a Pragmatics of the Useless

For a Pragmatics of the Useless

Manning, Erin

Hardcover

Series: Thought in the ACT

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1478010029
ISBN13: 9781478010029
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 23 2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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