Arjun Appadurai

Failure

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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 re… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Alexander, Neta

ISBN: 978-1-5095-0472-5
EAN: 9781509504725
Produktnummer: 30861400
Verlag: Polity Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 120 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.1 cm 218 g
Gewicht: 218

Über den Autor

Arjun Appadurai is Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.Neta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Colgate University, New York.