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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 Felix 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.

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

09 octobre 2020

EAN13

9781478012597

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

27 Mo

For a Pragmatics of the Useless

Thought in the Actserîes edîted by Erîn Mannîng and Brîan Massumî A

Duke Unîversîty Press Durham and London 2020

erin manning

© 2020duke university press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paper∞ Designed by Courtney Leigh Richardson Typeset in Courier and Whitman by Westchester Publishing Services

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Manning, Erin, [date] author. Title: For a pragmatics of the useless / Erin Manning. Other titles: Thought in the act. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. | Series: Thought in the act | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers:lccn2020014223 (print) |lccn2020014224 (ebook) isbn9781478010029 (hardcover) isbn9781478011071 (paperback) isbn9781478012597 (ebook) Subjects:lcsh: Racism—Psychological aspects. | Psychoanalysis and racism. | Racism. Classiﬁcation:lcc bf175.4.r34m366 2020 (print) |lcc bf175.4.r34 (ebook) |ddc155.8/2—dc23 lcrecord available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020014223 lcebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020014224

With SenseLab

Acknowledgments ix

prelude—Fugitively, Approximately 1

For a Pragmatics of the Useless 15

Toward a Politics of Immediation 33

pocket practice—nestingpatching 55

What Things Do When They Shape Each Other 75

pocketpractice—backgroundingforegrounding 103

Experimenting Immediation: Collaboration and the Politics of Fabulation 115

Practicing the Schizz 145

interude—How Do We Repair? 199

Contents

Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito: Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University as We Know It 213

pocket practice—ivingoving 235

Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synesthesia, and Other Ways of Knowing 245

pocket practice—ticcinglapping 271

Cephalopod Dreams: Finance at the Limit 289

coda—schizzinganarchiving 309

Notes 317 References 345 Index 359

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Acknowedgments

Kenneth Baîey, or the enthusîastîc and determîned wîsdom you brîng, the cu-rîosîty and care to îmagîne other ways în the ace o systemîc antîback racîsm. You pushed me, în no uncertaîn terms, to go beyond neurodîversîty to ask about whîteness. I resîsted at ﬁrst, uncertaîn how to enter the ray, uneasy wîth the enormîty o the enterprîse. But I heard you, and în the years that oowed I îs-tened cosey to better understand what has moved you consîstenty, over the ﬁve decades and countîng o your îe, to work as an întercessor or those back communîtîes that made you and sustaîn you. Thîs book îs dedîcated to you and to your dances în the kîtchen. SenseLab, or brîngîng technîques înto the word through whîch a îvîng can be împrovîsed. I enter înto our coectîve thînkîng wîth these words to accom-pany the neurodîverse sensîbîîty that oten doesn’t take the orm o anguage, to pu out o îts aways-emergent consîstency the taste o a shapîng that mîght con-ceptuay tune the proposîtîons underway. Thîs îs never a speakîng-or. We woud a te the storîes dîferenty, the power o the ase a potent orce în the work we do. The aîm îs never to expaîn but to orge, în the spîrît o a dîferentîa at-tunement, a certaîn consoîdatîon o what, în the tîme o îts comîng-to-be, must resîst any and a împosîtîons o orm. You’ve gîven me practîces that artîcuate what thîngs do when they shape each other, practîces that have opened the way or a revauatîon o vaue în excess o the orm thîngs take. Wîthout thîs întense, dîicut, beautîu work, aways în the key o a mînor socîaîty, coectîve în îts attunement to body-words schîzzîng, the turn schîzoanaysîs has taken în my thînkîng woud not have been possîbe. Brîan Massumî, or a îvîngovîng that moves through every word, every turn o phrase. The thînkîng dances, aways, across the words we make together. Everythoughtîsawaysothebeîngoourreatîon,movedîntoexpressîonîna mîddîng that cannot dîstînguîsh where the abuatory orce o our comîng-înto-thînkîng together begîns and ends. To wrîte together în sînguarîty îs to

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