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SUMMARY:Making it Worse: the Seductions of Productive Failure
DESCRIPTION:What is the futurity of failure? In this lecture, I trace how a
  common-sense imperative to learn from failure has come to govern our effor
 ts to solve global crises. I am interested in how the humiliations and dang
 ers of failure are corrected, redeemed and anticipated in ways that make it
  no big deal. Solutionism makes failure productive by turning it into somet
 hing else – a minor error, a lesson to be learned, a future path to avoid. 
 That foreclosure produces a distinct political terrain in which certain bod
 ies, life-worlds and trajectories are made available for redemption and fut
 urity, whilst others are dispossessed and consigned to the wastelands of fa
 ilure. Drawing on an ‘archive of the already-failed’, I examine what else i
 s going on as the juggernaut of productive failure drives forward. Many hav
 e written about how to escape from the wastelands of failure – striving to 
 return to a world driven by progress and success; succumbing to abjection, 
 suffering and death; or building a new revolutionary movement. For me, all 
 of these escape-routes miss the register of everyday life in the ruins in w
 hich people navigate, manoeuvre and muddle through a dominant normative inf
 rastructure not oriented to their thriving. To make sense of the political 
 terrain of failure, I explore two related questions: (a) what is done in th
 e name of learning from failure, and (b) what possibilities for living, per
 sisting and dying well emerge when we dispense with the desire to make fail
 ure productive.\n\nVortrag auf Englisch von Prof. Debbie Lisle, Queen's Uni
 versity Belfast\n\nMittwoch, 7. Oktober 2026, 17:45-19:45 Uhrin der Univers
 ität HamburgFlügelbau West - ESA W 221Edmund-Siemers-Allee 120146 Hamburg\n
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