re-launch of Bureau for Listening’s publication 'failed attempt to listening / failure as a strategy for listening

+ a reading/writing/listening workshop, where we will explore listening through reflecting on and share the learnings and unlearnings of failing to listen.

Rather than perceiving failure as a negative and devalued form of shortcoming, we will engage it as an activistic and critical framework, through which we might reorientate and reevaluate our abilities and desired society. Everyone is welcome, and simply supporting the room by one's listening is valued equally to actively sharing one's thoughts and experiences.

'To listen, then, is to fail at understanding in the traditional sense. It is to tremble and await, to dream, to explore and to remain open to the dissonance that arises in the encounter with otherness. Through failure, we come to realize that understanding is not a final destination but a continual process of questioning and renegotiation. Listening as failure is not about getting it right; it is about staying with the messiness, the uncertainty, and the profound unknowing that is necessary for true connection.'

A form of the publication, under the same title, was first published by Passive/Aggressive the 22nd of November 2024.

You can see more about the publication here: https://bureauforlistening.com/failed-attempts-at-listening/

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