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Failure – the notorious F-word – is inevitable. The discrepancy between the expectation (or promise) and the ability (or willingness) that produces failure can equally result in catastrophe, resistance, or even mundane disappointment. The different manifestations and outcomes of failure correspond to anthropologist Arjun Appadurai and media scholar Neta Alexander’s proposal that failure is a judgment. As a judgment, failure is defined by both the structures of its appearance and the agents producing and affected by [removed];
We want to question how the judgments on failure are connected to the different temporalities a failure can assume? In other words – how do we define something to be a failure when factoring in its longevity, repetition, or place in the past, present, or future? Moreover, what kind of reactions, strategies and poetics come out of them?
In the upcoming issue, we ask for contributions that tackle the long and short failures, failures in the past, present and future, cyclical failures that forge our sense of never-ending frustration, and one-off failures that are easily ignored, for better or for worse. We ask to question what comes before or after failure, or is in sync with it, and what strategies for dealing or working with failure these different temporal modes [removed];
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