The Queer Art of Failure
The Queer Art of Failure A John hope FrAnklin Center Book The Queer Art of Failure Judith Halberstam Duke university press | DurhAm AnD lonDon | 2011 © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ♾ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Quadraat and Quadraat Sans by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the University of Southern California, which provided funds toward the production of this book. For All oF history’s losers Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Low Theory 1 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27 2. Dude, Where’s My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53 3. The Queer Art of Failure 87 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123 5. “The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You”: Homosexuality and Fascism 147 6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173 Notes 189 Bibliography 193 Index 201 illustrAtions Figures 1. Chicken Run, 2000 28 2. Toy Story, 1995 31 3. Monsters, Inc., 2001 43 4. Over the Hedge, 2006 45 5. Robots, 2005 46 6. Bee Movie, 2007 49 7. Finding Nemo, 2003 54 8. Brassai, “La Grosse Claude et son amie, au ‘Monocle,’” ca. 1932 99 9. Cecil Beaton, “Gertude Stein.” (1935) 102 10. Cabello/Carceller, “Sin título (Utopia) #27,” 1998–99 112 11. Cabello/Carceller, “Sin título (Utopia) #29,” 1998–99 112 12. Cabello/Carceller, “Alguna Parte #5,” 2000 114 13. Cabello/Carceller, “Alguna Parte #2,” 2000 114 14.
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