FAILURE

Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on t hem 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 ex ploring debt, crisis, digital divides and (dis)connectivity. What kind of failures do finance and technology perpetuate and monetize ? What do...[Read more]