Appadurai, Arjun
Failure / Edition 1
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509504718
- author:
- Appadurai, Arjun
- format:
- Hardcover
- publisher:
- Wiley
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 120
- Dimensions:
- 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)
- Genre:
- Sociology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Wall Street and Silicon Valley are two worlds that promote the idea that scarcity can be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." However, Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander argue that habitual and strategic failure is a more complex reality. They explore how debt, crisis, digital divides, and disconnection shape our understanding of failure. Appadurai and Alexander examine the relationship between planned obsolescence, deliberate precariousness in digital technologies, and the "too big to fail" logic of the Great Recession. By looking at moments of forgetfulness, they offer a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control. This book provides a new understanding of failure as a condition that produces disappointment and pain, but also as a concept that requires a nuanced analysis of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten.
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