The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

nebbish,

actually reveals the architectures of white male stupidity and the kinds

teacher who realized that people must be led to learn rather than taught to follow. Ranciére comments ironically, “Like all conscientious professors,

anachronism,

certitude

runs the risk of not being taken seriously. Yet this is my goal. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

What separates the Pixarvolt from the merely pixilated? One answer turns upon the difference between collective revolutionary selves and a more conventional notion of a fully realized individuality. The non- Pixarvolt animated features prefer family to collectivity, human individuality to social bonding, extraordinary individuals to diverse communi

alterity,

The swarm presents as a mass rather than a unitary enemy and offers no obvious target; thinking as a single superorganism, the swarm is elusive, ephemeral, in flight. Like