Written across the years 2017 to 2020, Useless Beauty surveys past, present, and – foremost – futural opportunities for the creation and editioning of nominally “useless” works of artistic scholarship. The book is also a Situationist-inspired “report on situations” and was developed across time- and performance-based works in artistic longing through the Out of India Collective and the Metropolitan Transmedia Authority (OOI-MTA), an artist-scholars’ collective originating in Ahmedabad, India, in February 2017. W4W1, as project, concerns the negotiation of the so-called knowledge commons (formerly General Intellect) and the development of new means toward no ends, in opposition to the edicts and ravages of the neoliberal, art-academic industrial complex. W4W2, currently under development through a second PhD project (in Philosophy of Art at the Institute of Philosophy, ZRC-SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia), as successor project, will establish the elective protocols for a “no rights” idiom for works of artistic scholarship with the negation of intellectual property rights and abject careerism as stepping stones toward a wholly new ecosystem for intentionally useless works in the Arts and Humanities – viz., literary-artistic works of no use and/or interest to Capital.