{"product_id":"books-for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-by-erin-manning","title":"For a Pragmatics of the Useless","description":"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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674836394257,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781478011071.jpg?v=1781535830","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-for-a-pragmatics-of-the-useless-by-erin-manning","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}