Description: Further DetailsTitle: For a Pragmatics of the UselessCondition: NewISBN-10: 1478011076EAN: 9781478011071ISBN: 9781478011071Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/23/2020Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 544gAuthor: Erin ManningGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Thought in the ActTopic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Title: For a Pragmatics of the Useless
ISBN-10: 1478011076
EAN: 9781478011071
ISBN: 9781478011071
Release Date: 11/23/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: People with Disabilities, Black Studies (Global), General
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Erin Manning
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Thought in the Act Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
