This volume follows failures out into the world, exploring how they unfold ethnographically. Taking a longer view shows how objects, narratives, and diagnoses of failures may be crafted, acted on, suffered, resisted – unmade or recomposed. Thus while tropes and diagnoses of failure can temporarily (re)organize, narrate, and stabilize the world, the kinds of failures explored here also indicate a mode of uncontainable excess that refuses the boundedness of knowledge objects, temporalities, and spaces. This volume offers three main interventions. The first concerns knowledge production: how objects of failure are crafted through selective ways of knowing that occlude both other modes of apprehension at different scales and failure's many affective valences. The second thinks through the knotted temporalities – whether pasts, futures, suspended presents, or repetition and sedimentation – that make and are made by failure. Finally, writing about unfurling failures requires careful attention to non-linear reverberations and traces as well as to open-ended and mobile narratives that produce different social and material effects.

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写作失败：知识生产、时间性、伦理和痕迹

这本书将失败带入了这个世界，探索它们如何在民族志上展开。从更长远的角度来看，可以看到对象、叙述和失败的诊断是如何被制作、采取行动、遭受、抵制——取消或重组的。因此，虽然失败的比喻和诊断可以暂时（重新）组织、叙述和稳定世界，但这里探讨的失败种类也表明一种无法控制的过度模式，它拒绝知识对象、时间性和空间的有限性。本卷提供了三种主要干预措施。第一个问题涉及知识生产：失败的对象是如何通过选择性的了解方式来制作的，这些方式在不同的尺度上阻碍了其他的理解模式和失败的许多情感效价。第二个通过打结的时间性来思考——无论是过去、未来、悬浮的礼物，或重复和沉降——制造失败并由失败制造。最后，撰写有关失败的文章需要仔细注意非线性回响和痕迹，以及产生不同社会和物质影响的开放式和流动叙事。