Appadurai, Arjun
Failure
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509504725
- author:
- Appadurai, Arjun
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 120
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 14.3 x 1.3 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Business, Economics, Microeconomics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Failure: A New Theory of Scarcity and Control. This book explores two worlds - Wall Street and Silicon Valley - that promote the idea that scarcity can be eliminated. Instead, Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure, examining debt, crisis, digital divides, and disconnection. They argue that the sense of failure is real, producing disappointment and pain. Appadurai and Alexander contend that failure is not a self-evident quality, but rather a phenomenon that requires a new understanding of the conditions under which repeated breakdowns and collapses are quickly forgotten. By examining moments of forgetfulness, this book offers a multilayered account of failure and a general theory of denial, memory, and nascent systems of control. Through its exploration of digital technologies and economic crises, Failure challenges our understanding of success and failure in the modern world.
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