Description: Further DetailsTitle: FailureCondition: NewEAN: 9781509504725ISBN: 9781509504725Publisher: Polity PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/27/2019Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 143mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 218gLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesAuthor: Arjun Appadurai, Neta AlexanderRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Failure
Title: Failure
EAN: 9781509504725
ISBN: 9781509504725
Release Date: 09/27/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Failure
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Banks & Banking, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Neta Alexander, Arjun. Appadurai
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Psychology, Business & Economics
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback