ERRANS

Today's critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics. Yet often the laudible failures are only those that are redeemed by subsequent successes. What could it mean to think errancy beyond such restrictions? And what would a radical critique of productivity, success, and fixed determination look like that doesn't collapse into the infamous 'I would prefer not to'? This volume looks for an answer in the complicated word field branching and stretching from the Latin errre. Its contributions explore the implications of embracing error, randomness, failure, non-teleological temporalities across different disciplines, discourses, and practices, with critical attention to the ambivalences such an impossible embrace generates.

Contenu
'Submit Your References' / Arnd Wedemeyer The Punakawans Make an Untimely Appearance / Preciosa de Joya The Animal That Laughs at Itself / James Burton Not Yet / Rosa Barotsi Incomplete and Self-Dismantling Structures / Antonio Castore Camera Fog; or, The Pendulum of Austerity in Contemporary Portugal / Maria José de Abreu Rinko Kawauchi: Imperfect Photographs / Clara Masnatta Inbuilt Errans / Zairong Xiang Errant Counterpublics / Ewa Majewska 'The Exile from the Law' / Federico Dal Bo