The Failed Individual

Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity

Verlag	Campus Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr	2017
Seitenanzahl	399 Seiten
ISBN	9783593437163
Format	PDF
Kopierschutz	Wasserzeichen
Geräte	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Preis	35,99 EUR

Scheitern ist in Mode: Immer offener wird in den USA über den Konkurs der eigenen Firma und (überwundene) Lebenskrisen gesprochen. Auch in der Wissenschaft hat das Thema Konjunktur. Dieser Band untersucht das individuelle Scheitern interdisziplinär. Was verstehen wir unter einem 'gescheiterten Individuum ', welche sozioökonomischen und technologischen Faktoren tragen dazu bei? Wie wird das Scheitern kulturell verhandelt, und inwiefern kann man es als Widerstand gegen gesellschaftliche Normen umdeuten?

Katharina Motyl, Dr. phil., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Tübingen. Regina Schober, Dr. phil., ist Akademische Rätin an der Universität Mannheim.

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Contents	6
Acknowledgments	10
Introduction: The Failed Individual – Susanne Hamscha, Katharina Motyl, and Regina Schober	12
I. Theoretical Perspectives on Failure	30
Sometimes You Just Fail: Protest and the Policing of Bad Feeling – Christopher Taylor	32
The Primordial Failure: A Cultural-Philosophical Analysis – Bina Nir	54
Failure in Economics: A Black-Box – Hannes Lang and Eva Lang	74
II. Determinants of Failure: Structures, Normativity, and Power	98
Destined to Fail: Cosmetic Surgery, Female Body Images, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark” – Johannes Fehrle	100
Disability Aesthetics and Vandalism in American Visual Culture – Susanne Hamscha	120
Wohnkultur and Zombification: Trying to Unfail the Homeless Individual – Wibke Schniedermann	140
Failed by the Criminal Justice System: The Hyperincarceration of the Black Urban Poor in the “War on Drugs” – Katharina Motyl	164
III. Failure as Resistance/Failure as Pleasure	188
“Hanging on”: Mohawk Sovereignty and the Art of Failure – Astrid M. Fellner	190
The Addict’s Ethics of Failure: Resistance to Ambition in the Photographic Work of Larry Clark – Florian Zappe	206
“Here is the trash heap, nothing there except a muted wailing”: Dithering in Negativity and the Failure to Move On – Marius Henderson	224
Failure as an Ethical Choice: Academic Resistance against Authoritarian Academic Systems – Mahmoud Arghavan	246
IV. Failure in American Literary History	266
Surviving on Wrecked Ships: The Failing Individual in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) – Dietmar Meinel	268
Naturalism and the Aesthetics of Failure – James Dorson	288
Productively Failing to Accelerate: Mary Borden’s Alternative Vision of Existing Successfully in Modern America – Svenja Fehlhaber	306
The Failed Individual and the Biopolitics of Climate Catastrophe in Edan Lepucki’s California (2014) – Susanne Leikam	330
V. Failure and the Digital Subject	346
Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie – Geert Lovink	348
Failing by Design: Self-Tracking and the Failed Individual – James Dyer	358
Failure Blogs and the Confessional Self – Regina Schober	376
Contributors	394