Failure - Softcover

Appadurai, Arjun; Alexander, Neta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509504729 ISBN 13: 9781509504725

Verlag: Polity, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509504729
• ISBN 13: 9781509504725
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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