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In Living On After Failure, Irving Goh dwells with failure and all of its negative affects. Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative. Rather, he engages with the ontological condition of failure as a process of staying with the impasse that failure brings. Drawing on the thought of Berlant,...
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Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University and Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, coauthor of The Deconstruction of Sex, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Affective Structure of Failure
1. Flopping to Sleep: The Failures of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
2. Drifting in a World of Failures: From Roland Barthes’s Neutral to Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy
3. Exscribing a Dark Care of the Self of Failed Existence: Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love and Édouard Levé’s Suicide
4. The Melodrama of Failure’s Shared Unshareability, Suicidal Ideation Included: Yijun Li’s Dear Friend, Where Reasons End, and Must I Go
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Introduction. The Affective Structure of Failure
1. Flopping to Sleep: The Failures of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
2. Drifting in a World of Failures: From Roland Barthes’s Neutral to Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy
3. Exscribing a Dark Care of the Self of Failed Existence: Eve Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love and Édouard Levé’s Suicide
4. The Melodrama of Failure’s Shared Unshareability, Suicidal Ideation Included: Yijun Li’s Dear Friend, Where Reasons End, and Must I Go
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1 有用 Faithful 2026-07-15 20:29:51 天津
其实读起来更像是哲学思考多过于文学分析，对“失败”理论的研究其实也不算是特别有新意，虽然提出了怎样将失败看作失败，以及想要打破失败与成功的二元对立，但是感觉在读的时候还是脱离不开二元框架，对文本的解读不如对很多哲学思考解读的好，但感觉也有掉书袋的嫌疑，对巴特的理解是好过于对其他几个重要理论家的分析。以及作者句法太啰嗦了，感觉很多时候都是在证明自己比其他研究失败想法的作者好，这一点确实还是不如Ede... 其实读起来更像是哲学思考多过于文学分析，对“失败”理论的研究其实也不算是特别有新意，虽然提出了怎样将失败看作失败，以及想要打破失败与成功的二元对立，但是感觉在读的时候还是脱离不开二元框架，对文本的解读不如对很多哲学思考解读的好，但感觉也有掉书袋的嫌疑，对巴特的理解是好过于对其他几个重要理论家的分析。以及作者句法太啰嗦了，感觉很多时候都是在证明自己比其他研究失败想法的作者好，这一点确实还是不如Edelman and Halberstam (展开)
1 有用 Freiheit! 2026-03-16 12:42:06 美国
an original (ontological) approach to thinking of failure; a very valid and much needed intervention on the recuperative mode of failure studies; the theorization part is stronger than the reading of ... an original (ontological) approach to thinking of failure; a very valid and much needed intervention on the recuperative mode of failure studies; the theorization part is stronger than the reading of literary texts (but puts together a very compelling sample of contemporary literature); the idea of shared unsharability is especially illuminating (展开)