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<\/i> 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\u00e9lix 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AUTHOR: <\/b>Erin Manning
\nPUBLISHER: <\/b>Duke University Press (2020)<\/p>\n
PAPERBACK: <\/b>384\u00a0pages
\nLANGUAGE: <\/b>English
\nISBN13:\u00a0<\/strong>978 1 478 01107 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34401,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16,135,146,121,93,290,89,206],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-34402","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-anglais","product_cat-english-en","product_cat-theoretical-texts-en","product_cat-ecrits-theoriques","product_cat-handicap","product_cat-disability-studies","product_cat-philosophieesthetique","product_cat-philosophy-aesthetics-en","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n