Taunting the Useful
In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to work rather than to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life,” the concept of the useful is perhaps one most in need of interrogation. Taunti...
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| author | Fromet de Rosnay, Emile |
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| description | In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to work rather than to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life,” the concept of the useful is perhaps one most in need of interrogation. Taunting the Useful seeks to unsettle notions of usefulness and uselessness, not merely by deconstructing these terms, but by sidetracking them. It doesn’t reverse things by saying that what is useless is useful. Rather, taunting is teasing, heckling, tickling, scratching the useful. By elaborating a notion of the “virtual useless,” Taunting the Useful seeks to tease the dimensions of wonder, use, and play, through modalities, contingencies, and potentialities of the useless-useful. An experimental book, it (un)does what it tells, and is as much an object taunting and taunted as it is a description of taunting the useful. Includes bonus chapters! |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1427642024-08-07T04:47:29Z Taunting the Useful Fromet de Rosnay, Emile philosophy;humanities;university;uselessness;error;'pataphysics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to work rather than to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life,” the concept of the useful is perhaps one most in need of interrogation. Taunting the Useful seeks to unsettle notions of usefulness and uselessness, not merely by deconstructing these terms, but by sidetracking them. It doesn’t reverse things by saying that what is useless is useful. Rather, taunting is teasing, heckling, tickling, scratching the useful. By elaborating a notion of the “virtual useless,” Taunting the Useful seeks to tease the dimensions of wonder, use, and play, through modalities, contingencies, and potentialities of the useless-useful. An experimental book, it (un)does what it tells, and is as much an object taunting and taunted as it is a description of taunting the useful. Includes bonus chapters! 2024-08-07T04:47:28Z 2024-08-07T04:47:28Z 2024-08-06T10:06:58Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92580 9781685711108 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142764 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92580/1/0449.1.00.pdf Punctum Books 10.53288/0449.1.00 10.53288/0449.1.00 9528137b-bd0f-4bee-8262-f1c8096922a3 d576e9db-93d4-49fc-8e5a-88e92c7175ae ab06dcee-1414-4f21-b117-49431e680179 9781685711108 255 Brooklyn, NY Book & creative works subvention fund University of Victoria The University of Victoria 10.13039/100008997 open access |
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