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SUMMARY:Making it Worse: the Seductions of Productive Failure
DESCRIPTION:Abstract of Debbie Lisle: What is the futurity of failure? In t
 his paper, I trace how a common-sense imperative to learn from failure has 
 come to govern our efforts to solve global crises. I am interested in how t
 he humiliations and dangers of failure are corrected, redeemed and anticipa
 ted in ways that make it no big deal. Solutionism makes failure productive 
 by turning it into something else – a minor error, a lesson to be learned, 
 a future path to avoid. That foreclosure produces a distinct political terr
 ain in which certain bodies, life-worlds and trajectories are made availabl
 e for redemption and futurity, whilst others are dispossessed and consigned
  to the wastelands of failure. Drawing on an ‘archive of the already-failed
 ’, I examine what else is going on as the juggernaut of productive failure 
 drives forward. Many have written about how to escape from the wastelands o
 f failure – striving to return to a world driven by progress and success; s
 uccumbing to abjection, suffering and death; or building a new revolutionar
 y movement. For me, all of these escape-routes miss the register of everyda
 y life in the ruins in which people navigate, manoeuvre and muddle through 
 a dominant normative infrastructure not oriented to their thriving. To make
  sense of the political terrain of failure, I explore two related questions
 : (a) what is done in the name of learning from failure, and (b) what possi
 bilities for living, persisting and dying well emerge when we dispense with
  the desire to make failure productive.\n\nVortrag auf Englisch von Prof. D
 ebbie Lisle, Queen's University Belfalst\n\nMittwoch, 7. Oktober 2026, 17:4
 5-19:45 Uhrin der Universität HamburgFlügelbau West - ESA W 221Edmund-Sieme
 rs-Allee 120146 Hamburg\n\nDer Eintritt zur Veranstaltung ist frei.\n\nAnme
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