Failure

ISBN-13: 9781509504725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 120 str.

Arjun Appadurai; Neta Alexander

Opis

"Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become. The authors propose a theory of habitual failure by exploring crisis and divides - yet failure is not a self-evident quality. It requires a new understanding of why it is so quickly forgotten"--

Recenzje

"Failure is an extraordinarily incisive and insightful work of contemporary social theory. The book unravels an infuriating paradox: Silicon Valley and Wall Street companies that move fast, break things, and ruin lives, justify their disastrous performance as a necessary step toward a glorious future. Appadurai and Alexander debunk this naïve narrative of progress, while exposing how important it is to superficially respectable social science. Their critical theory illuminates key trends of our time." Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Carey School of Law "Appadurai and Alexander's Failure exacts a scathing critique of how digital capitalism reorganizes time, the social, and the self. It is a stockpile of insights, an academic arsenal for overthrowing today's 'regimes of failure.'" John Cheney-Lippold, University of Michigan

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Difference that Doesn't Make a Difference 2. Chapter 1: The Promise Machine: Between "Techno-failure" and Market Failure 3. Chapter 2: Creative Destruction and the New Socialities 4. Chapter 3: Failure, Forgotten: On Buffering, Latency, and the Monetization of Waiting 5. Chapter 4: Too Big to Fail: Banks, Derivatives, and Market Collapse 6. Conclusion: Failure, Remembered 7. References

O autorze

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.