Category: Giovanni Marmont

  • What’s the Use? Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities

    What’s the Use? Entanglement, Indebtedness, and Minor Socialities

    In this episode, we speak with Erin Manning and Giovanni Marmont for a conversation about how use might be detached from productivity, mastery, and measurable achievement. Moving between studious use, the pragmatics of the useless, colonial property, football, maple syrup, improvised infrastructures, and the struggle to reclaim time, they explore forms of collective life grounded…

  • A Studious Use

    A Studious Use

    A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont What if study was not about learning, improvement, accreditation? What if use was not about intentionality, function, ownership? A Studious Use invites readers to reconsider the habitual logics and material priorities at play in practices of both study and use. It examines their potential and actual…