What is it that draws us to failing?
Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions specific to failing; why, and how, it awakens our desire; and why it is taboo in a way quite different from its resonances in the era before the free market.
The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020. In this talk, introduced and chaired by Vineet Gill, Amit discusses ‘The Intimacy of Failing’.
