Manning Erin Manning

For a Pragmatics of the Useless (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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: "e;All black life is neurodiverse life."e; This is not an equation, but an "e;approximation of proximity."e; Manning shows how neurotypicality and whiteness combine to form a normative baseline for existence. Blackness and neurodiversity "e;schizz"e; 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 "e;schizoanalysis"e; of the more-than, charting a panoply of techniques for other ways of living and learning.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012597
• Artikelnr.: 66282578

Autorenporträt

Erin Manning

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prelude. Fugitively, Approximately  1
1. For a Pragmatics of the Useless  15
2. Toward a Politics of Immediation  33
Pocket Practice. nestingpatching  55
3. What Things Do When They Shape Each Other  75
Pocket Practice. backgroundigforegrounding  103
4. Experimenting Immediation: Collaboration and the Politics of Fabulation 
115
5. Practicing the Shizz  145
Interlude. How Do We Repair?  199
6. Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito: Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University
As We Know It  213
Pocket Practice. livingdoing  235
7. Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synesthesia, and Other Ways of Knowing  245
Pocket Practice. ticcingflapping  271
8. Cephaloped Dreams: Finance at the Limit  289
Coda. schizziganarchiving  309
Notes  317
References  345
Index  359