Experimental Radio Practice : Simina Oprescu - Is it Failure? 22.07.2022

From the perspective of potentiality, the mechanics of failure have little to do with actual cases of malfunction or deficiency and more to do with the contours of existence. The paradox that failure articulates in this respect is not a dialectical conundrum as much as a category of being, a category that while no less real than, say, “minds,” “classes,” “properties,” “events,” or “relations,” cannot be lived out but only lived in—being lived in the occasion of its self abstraction. In other words, paradox characterises a mode of being that is virtual. With regard to Martin Heidegger’s analysis of experience in Being and Time, suggesting that from failure springs forth “Both too much and too little: not things in their actuality, but being in its possibility, ...

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