Failure

by Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander

Book Overview

Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509504729
• ISBN13: 9781509504725
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"