{"product_id":"for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-hardcover","title":"For a Pragmatics of the Useless - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErin Manning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003ci\u003eFor a Pragmatics of the Useless\u003c\/i\u003e 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 F lix 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Manning is Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University and the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Minor Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlways More Than One: Individuation's Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52723978633523,"sku":"9781478010029","price":193.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NDdZMXczVHVlbEdkWS9vYnZQWUVEQT09.webp?v=1763679579","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}