{"product_id":"9781478010029","title":"For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Thought in the Act)","description":"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42787327246411,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":4098.35,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9781478010029-1.jpg?v=1783442976","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/th\/products\/9781478010029","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}