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DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:30 / Program at 8   $10\n\nRADAR Book Club celebrates a new book 
 each month by an author we love. Buy the book at discount in advance, read 
 up and join the author for a performance and conversation!\n\nDecember's 
 Book Club is The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam\n\nThe Queer Art 
 of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings 
 of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic 
 disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved 
 methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new 
 ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Judith Halberstam proposes 
 “low theory” as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many 
 different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It 
 runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to 
 fail and to lose one’s way, to pursue difficult questions about 
 complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back 
 and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, 
 Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, 
 avant-garde performance, and queer art. She pays particular attention to 
 animated children’s films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected 
 encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure 
 sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being 
 in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and 
 libido.\n\nBuy The Queer Art of Failure  at 40% off at Duke University 
 Press. Enter RADAR at checkout!\n\nJudith 'Jack' Halberstam is Professor of 
 English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the 
 University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer 
 Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female 
 Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, 
 both also published by Duke University Press. \n\nWith special guests Chris 
 Vargas and Greg Youmans of Falling in Love . . . With Chris and 
 Greg.\n\nFalling in Love… is a situation comedy about a gay odd couple, 
 one liberal, one radical; one transgendered, one not. They don't have a 
 whole lot in common, but somehow they manage.\n\nChris Vargas is a film & 
 video maker whose areas of interest include queer/transgender history, 
 tabloid biography, and radical politics. In 2011, he earned his MFA in Art 
 Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently 
 teaches digital video production. His solo video work includes Have You 
 Ever Seen a Transsexual Before? (2010) and Libéraceon (2011). With Eric 
 Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia (2006), as well as its 
 forthcoming feature-length sequel, Criminal Queers (2011).\n\nGreg Youmans 
 is a film scholar as well as a videomaker. He earned his Ph.D. from the 
 History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa 
 Cruz, where he teaches in the Department of Film & Digital Media. His 
 research explores the social and political role of queer cinemas during the 
 1970s. Arsenal Pulp Press has just published his book on the documentary 
 Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group, 1977). 
 He is now working on his next book, Moral Panic Media: Gay and Lesbian 
 Filmmaking in the Time of Anita Bryant.\n\nHosted by Michelle Tea. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/05/18701856.php
SUMMARY:RADAR Book Club With Jack Halberstam and The Queer Art of Failure
LOCATION:Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/05/18701856.php
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