The path of futility: Contributions to an unproductive revolution
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The e-book La vía de lo inútil. Aportes para una revolución improductiva (The Way of the Useless: Contributions to an Unproductive Revolution), compiled by Juan M. Conforte and Natalia Lorio, consists of a series of essays resulting from research in contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis on the theme of the “useless” as a type of activity not guided by the frameworks of capitalist productivity. The texts compiled in this e-book trace different forms of uselessness, but also various pitfalls that a superficial consideration of the issue could lead us into. The capitalist machine is adept at generating false crises, simulacra of revolutions, and alienating freedoms. In short, it is adept at creating “simulacra,” as Klossowski puts it, turning everything into merchandise, even desire itself.
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Prologue. A fair reflection on the useless
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Part 1. The futility of capitalist discourse
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We are always responsible for our position in the face of futility.
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Accelerationism and its critics
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The imperative to “be your best self”
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Notes on désouvrement and enjoyment
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Part 2. Among debris and waste
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The melancholic gaze of ruin: encounters between allegory and the abject
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Writing as a poetic experience in Terry Tempest Williams's “When Women Were Birds”
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Resonate. When words take shape
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A rather sterile delight
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Part 3. Ways of life
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The heterological value of matter and desire. Falls, remains, and uprisings
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The banality of the useful. Notes for a dog's life
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The impertinence of the useless
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The rest is history. Notes on the residual and Peronism
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