Uselessness : : Humankind’s most valuable tool? /

Uselessness : : Humankind’s most valuable tool? / / ed. by Michelle Howard, Luciano Parodi.

Is uselessness a tool? The acquisition of tools is the secret to humankind’s success and what distinguishes us from animals. However, we also use tools to tell stories and produce objects that are perplexingly useless. Uselessness rarely meets our expectations, but can also be fascinating and libera...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Diederichsen, Diedrich,
Hatherley, Owen,
Howard, Michelle,
Kurbak, Ebru,
Leimer, Sonia,
Meyer, Kerstin,
Paredes Maldonado, Miguel,
Parodi, Luciano,
Schrenk, Friedemann,
Sonderegger, Ruth,
Stec, Ryan,
HerausgeberIn:
Howard, Michelle,
Parodi, Luciano,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • PREFACE. USELESSNESS IS A RAREFIED THING
  • INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Excavating Obsolete Migrant Skills
  • REFUSING TO PERFORM: Trans-Utility, or the contemporary value of uselessness in architecture
  • USELESSNESS AND PURPOSELESSNESS: On central norms and imperatives of Western aesthetics
  • USELESS, AND THEN DANGEROUS: Public Space and Property in 20th century British Modernist Housing
  • USELESS ARCHITECTURE
  • USE–LESS–LAND: Two centuries of defending Tempelhofer Field in Berlin
  • IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS USELESSNESS
  • CONQUEST OF THE USELESS
  • ART—USE— USEFULNESS. Two Discourses: Use Value and Instrumentalization
  • EPILOGUE: USELESSNESS, XXXXXi

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