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The Queer Art of Failure - Jack Halberstam - Coggle Diagram
The Queer Art of Failure - Jack Halberstam
Weapons of the weak
- James C. Scott ( passivity, inaction) In the context of the oppression of working class South East Asians
Strategies for sabotage
: foot-dragging, evasion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, arson, dissimulation, and slander
Narratives of failure
Queer narratives
A search for progress can seem Utopian
José Munoz ' Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity'( 2009) 89
A positive Horizon
'utopian refusal of social-norms
Celebration of heroic stories of failure
Frederick Charles "Freddie" Herko
Tracey Moffatt - 4th Place pg. 92-93
Narratives ignored by history
Brassai 98-100
darkness: " is the terrain of the failed and miseable"
Daphne Brooks - darkness is an iterpretive strategy,, a mode of reading the world from a particular dark position
Halberstam - this resonates with queer aesthetics
narrative of deviancy in nocturnal underground/alternative Paris.
Sapphic love
Monica Mojoli/ Judie Bamber 104-106
Darkness
The Impossibility of love
Loss and death
Judie Bamber 116-118
( Repudiate) Rejection of sentiment
Seascapes devoid of romanticism
Saccharine - Overly sentimental
Carbello/ Carceller
Empty Pools
linking queerness to a mode of negativity
emptiness, futility, limitation, ineffectiveness, sterility, unproductiveness
Trainspotting pg. Renton's speech; 90-92
Lust for life - ironic theme music about the 'ravaged life of a heroin addict.. suprisingly upbeat - uses The Supremes drum intro. .
nihilism
Quentin Crisp 96.- 97
"If at first you don't succeed , failure may be your style"
Failure as an ally and opportunity
Use of humor to assert himself, a strategy of activism for the
queer cause
Refusal to follow conventions
the L word 94-96
A reductive view : Hetero-gaze
love, leisure, liberty, luck, lovelies, longevity,, L.A.
Anti-butch aesthetic?
unauthentic, inappropriate representation of queer culture
ignoring the struggle
losers, labor, lust, loss, lemon
Low Theory 109/ 119.
Halberstam thinks that the 'antisocial turn spoken about by certain queer theorists ignores the possibility of ' political projects from anticolonialism to punk' which gives it a ' narrow range of affective responses'
Children's Cinema, animation films
narratives of revolt
characters: heterosexual coupling is unended;..challenged by queer contact: princes turn into frogs, ogres refuse to become beautiful..collectivity over domesticity
Radical imaginings of community
Anti-Social theory
Valerie Solnas - S.C.U.M Manifesto
direct action - shooting 'successful artist Andy Warhol
Lee,Elderman
No Future
Lacanian
Negative view of love - Romantic relationships are build upon projections and individual fantasies and we can't truly understand one-another
Love is doomed
Unbeing, unbecoming - A search for alternatives
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
"the flowers in the dustbin" 108
No Future