For a pragmatics of the useless

Summary: "Leading with the proposition that "all black life is neurodiverse life," For a Pragmatics of the Useless explores how value is produced in the context of resolutely white, neurotypical modes of existence, proposing schizoanalysis as a mode of practice that opens the way for other ways of living and learning"--

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ISBN: 9781478010029
ISBN: 1478010029
ISBN: 9781478011071
ISBN: 1478011076
ISBN: 9781478012597
Physical Description: print
x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham : London ; Duke University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Fugitively, Approximately -- For a Pragmatics of the Useless: A Politics of the Infrathin, in Preamble -- Toward a Politics of Immediation: The Subject -- pocket practice -- nestingpatching -- What Things Do When They Shape Each Other -- pocket practice -- backgroundingforegrounding -- Experimenting with Immediation: Collaboration and the Politics of Fabulation: A -- Laboratory for Thought in Motion -- Practicing the Schizz -- interlude -- How Do We Repair? -- Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito: Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University As We know It -- pocket practice -- livingloving -- Not at a Distance: On Touch, Synesthesia, and Other Ways of Knowing -- pocket practice -- ticcingflapping -- Cephalopod Dreams: Finance at the Limit -- coda -- schizzinganarchiving