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Uselessness

Name: Uselessness
Brand: De Gruyter
SKU: 24848410
Price: 9877 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Michelle Howard
ISBN: 9783110679816

Humankind's most valuable tool?

Michelle Howard

Luciano Parodi

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 24848410

Publishers De Gruyter, March 2020

Is uselessness a tool? The acquisition of tools is the secret to humankind's success and what distin... Full description

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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 liberating, because it eludes the logic of the "use = value" equation. In the Modern Age usefulness became a priority: with reference to space, production or training. Yet futurologists today predict that one product of artificial intelligence will be a "useless" future. If the future makes us useless, it will be necessary to reconsider our attitude toward uselessness. The texts in this interdisciplinary reader illuminate the potential creativity the future can bring in light of this development.