Failure
"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"--
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- Full title :Failure / Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander.
Summary
"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"--
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:vii, 145 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781509504718, 1509504710, 9781509504725, 1509504729
- oclc:on1083576230
- LC Classification:HC79.T4
- Dewey Decimal:338.5/42
Table of Contents
Introduction: the difference that doesn't make a difference -- The promise machine: between "techno-failure" and market failure -- Creative destruction and the new socialities -- Failure, forgotten: on buffering, latency, and the monetization of waiting -- Too big to fail: banks, derivatives, and market collapse -- Conclusion: failure, remembered.
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