Erin Manning

For a Pragmatics of the Useless

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the radical black tradition, process philosophy, and Felix Guattari's schizoanalysis, Erin Manning explores the links between neurotypicality, whiteness, and black life.

Produktdetails

• Thought in the Act
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010029
• ISBN-10: 1478010029
• Artikelnr.: 58699042

Autorenporträt

Erin Manning

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prelude. Fugitively, Approximately  1
1. For a Pragmatics of the Useless  15
2. Toward a Politics of Immediation  33
Pocket Practice. nestingpatching  55
3. What Things Do When They Shape Each Other  75
Pocket Practice. backgroundigforegrounding  103
4. Experimenting Immediation: Collaboration and the Politics of Fabulation 
115
5. Practicing the Shizz  145
Interlude. How Do We Repair?  199
6. Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito: Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University
As We Know It  213
Pocket Practice. livingdoing  235
7. Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synesthesia, and Other Ways of Knowing  245
Pocket Practice. ticcingflapping  271
8. Cephaloped Dreams: Finance at the Limit  289
Coda. schizziganarchiving  309
Notes  317
References  345
Index  359