EPILOGUE: USELESSNESS, XXXXXi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. CONTRIBUTORS 6
4. PREFACE. USELESSNESS IS A RAREFIED THING 8
5. INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Excavating Obsolete Migrant Skills 22
6. REFUSING TO PERFORM: Trans-Utility, or the contemporary value of uselessness in architecture 33
7. USELESSNESS AND PURPOSELESSNESS: On central norms and imperatives of Western aesthetics 49
8. USELESS, AND THEN DANGEROUS: Public Space and Property in 20th century British Modernist Housing 64
9. USELESS ARCHITECTURE 84
10. USE–LESS–LAND: Two centuries of defending Tempelhofer Field in Berlin 94
11. IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS USELESSNESS 106
12. CONQUEST OF THE USELESS 123
13. ART—USE— USEFULNESS. Two Discourses: Use Value and Instrumentalization 134
14. EPILOGUE: USELESSNESS, XXXXXi 144