Taunting the Useful
| dc.contributor.author | Fromet de Rosnay, Louis Emile | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-07T04:44:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-07T04:44:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08-06 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-09-07T04:44:15Z | |
| dc.description | Publication status: ACTIVE | |
| dc.description | Funder: University of Victoria; ror: https://ror.org/04s5mat29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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! | |
| dc.description.version | VoR | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.53288/0449.1.00 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781685711108 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9781685711115 | |
| dc.identifier.other | f6de421b-4eac-4a59-8138-e8716509f557 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/795 | |
| dc.language | ENG | |
| dc.publisher | punctum books | |
| dc.rights | Embargo: none | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | JNA | |
| dc.subject | JNM | |
| dc.subject | EDU040000 | |
| dc.subject | PHI014000 | |
| dc.subject | error | |
| dc.subject | humanities | |
| dc.subject | 'pataphysics | |
| dc.subject | philosophy | |
| dc.subject | university | |
| dc.subject | uselessness | |
| dc.title | Taunting the Useful | |
| dc.type | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33 |
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