{"id":26530,"date":"2019-08-26T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=26530"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:34:25","slug":"entry-4-fail-better-by-sonia-fernandez-pan-nov-2015-and-adesks-may-2019-issue-on-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/entry-4-fail-better-by-sonia-fernandez-pan-nov-2015-and-adesks-may-2019-issue-on-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry #4: \u201cFail Better\u201d by Sonia Fern\u00e1ndez Pan (Nov 2015) and A*Desk\u2019s May 2019 issue on Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Whitechapel volume, <em>Failure<\/em>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/fracaso-2\/\">A*Desk\u2019s May 2019 issue devoted to the subject<\/a>, the proliferation of art-critical publications on the topic of failure in recent years is striking.[1] As many of the A*Desk texts point out \u2013 including the previously archived article <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/fail-better3195\/\">\u201cFail Better\u201d (2015) by Sonia Fern\u00e1ndez Pan<\/a> \u2013 an interest in failure is blowing in the contemporary breeze. For failure and its discourse have become an integral mechanism in the success machine of capital and the post-disciplinary control society (Gilles Deleuze). Authors, mentors, lecturers, conference organizers, and life coaches attempt to help everyone embrace and face the failures that propel the relentless recalibration and retraining of \u201cskill sets.\u201d The American \u201ccan-do\u201d attitude loves to fail, now that the newfound humility has been pragmatized, operationalized, and aligned with market trends.<\/p>\n<p>And yet at the same time the attention given to failure paradoxically resonates with the monumental catastrophe gripping the planet, the widespread imagining of end times for the anthropocene, and the growing doubts about capitalism\u2019s capacity to retard, let alone reverse, the decay it continues to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the well-deserved skepticism cast on the subject are those texts and projects in the May 2019 A*Desk issue that aim to redeem a more radical potential in failure. These endeavors intend to harness failure as an index pointing beyond the system in which the failing element suffers from dysfunctionality. The exact singularity of the failure instead intimates another system in which the element might, even for the first time, achieve a function, while the perfection of the extant system recoils in inchoate obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Lisa Le Feuvre (ed.), <em>Failure\u00a0<\/em>(London: The MIT Press, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>[2] Gilles Deleuze, \u201cPostscript on the Societies of Control\u201d in <em>October<\/em>, Vol. 59. (The MIT Press, Winter, 1992).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Whitechapel volume, Failure, to A*Desk\u2019s May 2019 issue devoted to the subject, the proliferation of art-critical publications on the topic of failure in recent years is striking.[1] As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":26198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6008],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6584],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Entry #4: \u201cFail Better\u201d by Sonia Fern\u00e1ndez Pan (Nov 2015) and A*Desk\u2019s May 2019 issue on Failure &#8211; 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