BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3441-13e1cd6f4e2ded6f4602f3cbaafdb4ce@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260624T200531Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T173000 SUMMARY:“The Problem of Failure,” Irving Goh DESCRIPTION:\nIn this presentation\, I propose a thinking of failure tha t might potentially be truer to failure itself. Common understandings of failure and even current "\;failure studies"\; tend to give fai lure a positive spin or an optimistic horizon\, such as claiming failure to be a necessary step for success\, or else a collective reparative li fe pedagogy. This has only led to the glossing over of failure or its tr ansformation into something other than itself.\n\nIn contrast\, I sugges t dwelling or tarrying with failure\, inhabiting the impasse that consti tutes failure and not get out of it. No doubt\, one would thus be expose d to all the negative affects that accompany failure\, and thought here risks fumbling\, collapsing. Yet\, in staying in or with the impasse\, o ne will begin to recognize failure as an existential structure or affect ive structure of existence\, that is\, an irreducible (dis)organizing fo rce or principle that underlies existence\, if not an unassailable feeli ng affecting the personal in irresistible ways. Such a thinking of failu re\, I argue\, is critical for according a discursive and affective spac e to those who feel particularly attached to failure\, or those who resi st the ideologies of success or progress narratives. It legitimizes thei r sense of existence\, rather than silencing them to the margins of what it means to exist.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event /engl_irving-goh/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this present ation, I propose a thinking of failure that might potentially be truer t o failure itself. Common understandings of failure and even current &quo t;failure studies" tend to give failure a positive spin or an optim istic horizon, such as claiming failure to be a necessary step for succe ss, or else a collective reparative life pedagogy. This has only led to the glossing over of failure or its transformation into something other than itself.

In contrast, I suggest dwelling or tarrying with fail ure, inhabiting the impasse that constitutes failure and not get out of it. No doubt, one would thus be exposed to all the negative affects that accompany failure, and thought here risks fumbling, collapsing. Yet, in staying in or with the impasse, one will begin to recognize failure as an existential structure or affective structure of existence, that is, a n irreducible (dis)organizing force or principle that underlies existenc e, if not an unassailable feeling affecting the personal in irresistible ways. Such a thinking of failure, I argue, is critical for according a discursive and affective space to those who feel particularly attached t o failure, or those who resist the ideologies of success or progress nar ratives. It legitimizes their sense of existence, rather than silencing them to the margins of what it means to exist.

For more details: < a href='https://events.la.psu.edu/event/engl_irving-goh/'>https://events .la.psu.edu/event/engl_irving-goh/

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