{ "item_title" : "For a Pragmatics of the Useless", "item_author" : [" Erin Manning "], "item_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 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/47/801/107/1478011076_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "30.95", "online_price" : "30.95", "our_price" : "30.95", "club_price" : "30.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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