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multilingual_s's review
I really enjoyed it, but at some point it just got too dense and the red thread too difficult to follow amidst all the citations and name-dropping. I was really hoping for a more accessible philosophy book, and at least in part it lives up to that promise. Maybe I'll come back to it some time.
caleigh_g's review
5.0
excellent! an interesting exploration of failure. i am inspired by halberstam's use of 'low theory' and pop culture. i often use pop culture as a lens into my own understanding of the world and my values. this is especially obvious in my drag performance. i highly recommend this book, especially to queer artists/makers.
kgmittty's review
challenging
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.0
I learned a lot, but the writing is very academic in most places which made it a little hard to read. I’m glad I made it through though because the ideas Halberstam introduces here are ones I am very intrigued by and will be thinking about when it comes to any piece of media I enjoy as well as my own life.
“To live is to fail, to bungle, to disappoint, and ultimately to die. Rather than searching for new ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite… Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all our own inevitable fantastic failures.”
“To live is to fail, to bungle, to disappoint, and ultimately to die. Rather than searching for new ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite… Rather than resisting endings and limits, let us instead revel in and cleave to all our own inevitable fantastic failures.”