AWW23: Learning to Embrace Our Inner Loser - Josh Cohen

Chair: Sarah Kanowski


In an era of waning liberal utopianism, decreasing faith in the
myth of economic progress and increasing social and psychological
fragmentation, the epithet ’loser’ has acquired a newly powerful
resonance. Josh Cohen discusses the experience of being a loser,
its literary champions, from Thomas Bernhard to Franz Kafka, and
the increasingly manic defences mobilised against this universal
condition – from a swollen self-help industry to political
demagoguery.


Event details: Tue 07 Mar, 12:00pm on the West
Stage