Failure by Arjun Appadurai HARDBACK 9781509504718

Failure\nby Arjun Appadurai\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Arjun Appadurai\nTitle: Failure\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology and anthropology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509504718\nISBN-10: 1509504710\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWall Street and Silicon Valley \u2013 the two worlds this book examines \u2013 promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless \u201Cflow.\u201D 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 \u201Ctoo big to fail\u201D logic of the Great Recession,.