Failure!

With a design that's half pocket-book, half zine, this provocative volume offers an array of essays, interviews and artworks that describe a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism, literature and philosophy, the work cuts against notions of forward-moving progress, instead exploring various dead-ends on the timeline of history. Edited by Nicole Antebi, Colin Dickey and Robby Herbst, "Failure!" offers directions for mapping our lives along paths that go nowhere--or worse. Contents include an illustrated study of the afterlife of Valerie Solanas and her "Scum Manifesto"; an exploration of the Morningstar Commune in Northern California, which was deeded to God; a comparison between the architecture of the Three Stooges and Frank Gehry; explorations of the legacies of the Weather Underground and a series of interviews with contemporary artists including Sam Durant, William Pope.L and Assume Vivid Astro Focus.Dickey, Colin is the author of 'Failure!', published 2008 under ISBN 9780979137709 and ISBN 0979137705.