Arjun Appadurai

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FailureHardcover, 4 November 2019

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Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Polity Press
Date Published
4 Nov 2019
ISBN-10
1509504710
ISBN-13
9781509504718

Description

Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt, crisis, digital divides, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the "too big to fail" logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of failure is real in that it produces disappointment and pain. Yet, failure is not a self-evident quality of projects, institutions, technologies, or lives. It requires a new and urgent understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten.

By looking at such moments of forgetfulness, this highly original book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control.

Product Details

Authors:
Arjun AppaduraiNeta Alexander
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
4 November 2019
Dimensions:
21.84 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1509504710
ISBN-13:
9781509504718
Language:
English
Pages:
120
Publisher:
Weight:
294.83 gm

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