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The Queer Art of Failure
Essay · 2011
Jack Halberstam
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Essay 2011

The Queer Art of Failure

failure as methodanti-success politicslow-theory play
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Jack Halberstam
Year
2011
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Synopsis

"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...

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failure as method failure as methodanti-success politics
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Jack Halberstam, 2011 — The Queer Art of Failure

"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...

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Editorial note
Lets the modernity thread settle into a deeper essay form.
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Why this work is here
"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...
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