Deconstructing failure

Abstract

As ubiquitous as failure is in our day to day lives, and the inevitability that each of us will confront it occasionally during our lifetime, we rarely ever stop to theorize and recontextualize what it truly means within our collective consciousness. Through a Postcolonial feminist perspective, I aim to challenge the ways in which we have been tempered to conceptualize what failure means to us, and why having a solid grasp of its ontological meaning and its presences in our lives will summon us to redefine our perceptions of the world, each other and ourselves. We can have a more intricate understanding of how the structures around us deliberately minimize the multidimensionality of the human condition to keep us subservient by having us lose touch with everything that makes us whole. I seek to provoke a discussion that seeks to re-evaluate what failure means in our current age, and how reclaiming it as an invaluable aspect of our humanity acts as a form of decolonization.