ENGL 6040: VanderMeer Keynote (SP22)
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iterations<br />
“<br />
They had failed in the last City, and the one before<br />
that, and the one before that. Sometimes that<br />
failure pushed the needle farther. Sometimes that<br />
failure changed not a thing. But perhaps one day<br />
a certain kind of failure might be enough<br />
(<strong>VanderMeer</strong> 3).<br />
Sylvia Wynter cities Frantz Fanon: ”I am willing to<br />
work on the psychoanalytical level—in other<br />
words, the level of the 'failures,' in the sense in<br />
which one speaks of engine failures.” To which<br />
Wynter adds, “For it is at this level that certain<br />
discoveries can be made” (Wynter, “Towards the<br />
{Sociogenic Principle” 37).<br />
(post)
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