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Failure

By Arjun Appadurai

Failure Law

Failure

By Arjun Appadurai

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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 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
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
120
Release Date:
2019-09-27
Publication Date:
2019-11-04
Publisher:
Polity Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509504729
ISBN13:
9781509504725
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
218 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
212 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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