The Failed Individual

Scheitern ist in Mode: Immer offener wird in den USA über den Konkurs der eigenen Firma und (überwundene) Lebenskrisen gesprochen. Auch in der Wissenschaft hat das Thema Konjunktur. Dieser Band untersucht das individuelle Scheitern interdisziplinär. Was verstehen wir unter einem "gescheiterten Individuum ", welche sozioökonomischen und technologischen Faktoren tragen dazu bei? Wie wird das Scheitern kulturell verhandelt, und inwiefern kann man es als Widerstand gegen gesellschaftliche Normen umdeuten?

ContentsAcknowledgments9Introduction: The Failed Individual11Susanne Hamscha, Katharina Motyl, and Regina SchoberI. Theoretical Perspectives on FailureSometimes You Just Fail: Protest and the Policing of Bad Feeling31Christopher TaylorThe Primordial Failure: A Cultural-Philosophical Analysis53Bina NirFailure in Economics: A Black-Box73Hannes Lang and Eva LangII. Determinants of Failure: Structures, Normativity, and PowerDestined to Fail: Cosmetic Surgery, Female Body Imagesand Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark"99Johannes FehrleDisability Aesthetics and Vandalism in American Visual Culture119Susanne HamschaWohnkultur and Zombification: Trying to Unfail the Homeless Individual139Wibke SchniedermannFailed by the Criminal Justice System: The Hyperincarcerationof the Black Urban Poor in the "War on Drugs?163Katharina MotylIII. Failure as Resistance / Failure as Pleasure"Hanging on?: Mohawk Sovereignty and the Art of Failure189Astrid M. FellnerThe Addict's Ethics of Failure: Resistance to Ambition in the Photographic Work of Larry Clark205Florian Zappe"Here is the trash heap, nothing there except a muted wailing?:Dithering in Negativity and the Failure to Move on223Marius HendersonFailure as an Ethical Choice: Academic Resistance againstAuthoritarian Academic Systems245Mahmoud ArghavanIV. Failure in American Literary HistorySurviving on Wrecked Ships: The Failing Individual in Edgar AllanPoe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)267Dietmar MeinelNaturalism and the Aesthetics of Failure287James DorsonProductively Failing to Accelerate: Mary Borden's AlternativeVision of Existing Successfully in Modern America305Svenja FehlhaberThe Failed Individual and the Biopolitics of Climate Catastrophein Edan Lepucki's California (2014)329Susanne LeikamV. Failure and the Digital SubjectNarcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie347Geert LovinkFailing by Design: Self-Tracking and the Failed Individual357James DyerFailure Blogs and the Confessional Self375Regina SchoberContributors393