Ivor Cutler and Critical Failure Studies
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Welcome to the deep dive today. We're getting into something most of us well try pretty hard to avoid, yeah, failure, but we're looking at it differently, not just as you know, something that happens by accident, but maybe as a source of insight, even creativity,
exactly. And we've got some really fascinating, almost polar opposite sources to explore this. On one hand, there's the incredibly unique, you could say, eccentric philosophy of the Scottish artist Ivor Cutler, ah,
the poet and songwriter, very distinctive. And on the other hand, a collection of pretty serious academic work from the book failureists, it actually proposes a whole field of critical failure studies.
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