Jack Halberstam's 'The Queer Art of Failure' Published in Italian

Jack Halberstam's 'The Queer Art of Failure' has been published in Italy by minimum fax, translated by Goffredo Polizzi. Over a decade after its US debut, the essay arrives in Italian bookstores amid the post-pandemic 'great resignation' era. Halberstam critiques the myth of happiness as life's goal, arguing that the success paradigm is inherently unjust, producing winners and failures. Drawing on Stuart Hall's 'low theory', he examines popular culture examples like 'Little Miss Sunshine' and Dory from 'Finding Nemo' to propose failure as an alternative to normative models. The book includes a postface by the CRAAZI collective. Published in Rome, 2022, 332 pages, €19.