Living On After Failure Affective Structures of Modern Life

"Drawing on a number of philosophical works to create his own convincing vocabulary of failure, Irving Goh dwells in the impasse of failure itself, embodying or attuning to a specific state that can seem to be everywhere and nowhere at once. Failure is thus a 'sense,' difficult to capture, something irreducible. In this way, Living On After Failure has special value as a study of contemporaneity. It captures the zeitgeist." - Gavin Jones, author of Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History

"Living On After Failure is a bold work that goes against the stream and forces us to take failure for what it is: a dark abyss. It is truly refreshing to come across such a work in today's academic humanities, dominated as they largely are by a reluctance to engage with controversial topics and perspectives." - Costica Bradatan, author of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility