To speak of failure is to invite stigma; yet failure saturates our lives, shapes our experience and delineates the contours of our institutions. This special issue aims to face failure head on, to study, theorize, even cultivate it, to see if performance might provide us with a metaphor and methodology for failure. Focusing in particular on pedagogy, these essays, dialogues, ethnographies and theoretical reflections tap the analytic power of failure to chart the social, political, and affective terrain in which we teach and perform. For these authors, failure is neither a dead end nor a pit stop on the path to success, but a generative, subversive force.<\/p>\n
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On Failure (On Pedagogy): Editorial Introduction
\nR\u00f3is\u00edn O’Gorman, Margaret Werry
\npp. 1 – 8
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\nVlatka Horvat
\npp. 2 – 7
\nNavigation, Nuance And Half\/Angel’s Knitting Map: A Series Of Navigational Directions
\nJools Gilson
\npp. 9 – 20
\nFour More Years Of Economics #9 And #10: Homo Bulla – The Ethics And Aesthetics Of Failure, And After The Jungle – Murder Mystery: An Economics And Performance Letter-Writing Project
\nAbhay Ghiara, Matthew Goulish
\npp. 21 – 32
\nIn The Silences: A Text With Very Many Digressions And Forty-Three Footnotes Concerning The Process Of Making Performance
\nTim Etchells
\npp. 33 – 37
\nCasual Racism And Stuttering Failures: An Ethics For Classroom Engagement
\nJill Dolan
\npp. 38 – 46
\nEmbracing Failure Though Performative Pedagogy: A Report From The Margins
\nJocelyn Mckinnon, Sean Lowry
\npp. 47 – 50
\nCrash Knowledge: Pretending To Be A Professor Who Fails
\nRicardo Dominguez
\npp. 51 – 58
\n[artist’s Images]
\nVlatka Horvat
\npp. 58
\nStupid, Paranoid, Wonderful: Staging Non-Knowledges In The Pedagogical Encounter
\nJohanna Linsley
\npp. 59 – 67
\nUnpicking Stage Deixis: The Chairs And The Aesthetics Of Failure
\nCormac Power
\npp. 68 – 76
\nThe Rake’s Progress: A Series Of Drawings Of The Fall Into The Academic Well Or The Sorry Attempt To Enlighten The Undergraduate Mind [artist’s Pages]
\nMichael Sommers
\npp. 77 – 78
\nFailure As Success: On Clowns And Laughing Bodies
\nEric Weitz
\npp. 79 – 87
\nWhen Failure Means Success: Music, Movement, Ritual And Facilitation With Middle East Youth And Ucla Students : a dialogue with Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
\nJohn Wesley Days Jr
\npp. 88 – 96
\nFreedom To Fail: The Unintended Consequences Of A Prison Drama
\nDavid Grant, with J.M. Crossan
\npp. 97 – 100
\nOn Failing Failure: A Letter To Margaret Werry
\nRustom Barucha
\npp. 101 – 104
\nThe Anatomy Of Failure: An Inventory
\nMargaret Werry, R\u00f3is\u00edn O’Gorman
\npp. 105 – 112
\n[artist’s Images]
\nVlatka Horvat
\npp. 111 – 112
\nOne Night In Motley Cow: Grotowski And Nietzsche
\nMurray Edmond
\npp. 113 – 125
\nAnti 2011, Kuopio, Finland: 27 September – 2 October 2011
\nDavid Williams
\npp. 126 – 132
\nNotes On Contributors
\npp. 133 – 134<\/p>\n\n\n