{"product_id":"for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-1","title":"For a Pragmatics of the Useless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eDrawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypicality, whiteness, and black life. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 560g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 152 x 229 x 28 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781478011071\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erin Manning","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095602491642,"sku":"9781478011071","price":25.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/a23dd71fd0173edb27c77592471b3dbf.jpg?v=1622122967","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-1","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}