In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. ...

Los críticos del capitalismo financiero lo presentan como una bestia negra y destructora, que genera ganancias extraordinarias mientras toda la estructura de la "economía real" (dueños del capital, trabajadores, mercancías, salarios) pasa a segundo plano. Y sin embargo, lo sepamos o no, esa bestia negra nos fascina y se mete de lleno en nuestra vida cotidiana cada vez que "tomamos deuda" para acceder al consumo, a la vivienda, a la educación, a cobertura médica y a seguros de vida. Frente ...

Come mai il processo di globalizzazione non ha spalancato le porte a un mondo più giusto e pacifico, ma sembra piuttosto aver liberato forze oscure che in Iugoslavia, in Iraq, nelle repubbliche dell’Asia centrale, in India, in Ruanda hanno portato gli uomini a parossismi di violenza quasi inimmaginabili? Perché questa spirale invece di attenuarsi si è intensificata, fino alla catastrofe dell’11 settembre, e di lì alle guerre contro l’Afghanistan e l’Iraq? Superando gli evidenti limiti degl...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart o...

Un grand débat international sur la situation contemporaine, porté par 15 intellectuels du monde entier : Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Nancy Fraser, Bruno Latour, Eva Illouz, Ivan Krastev, Paul Mason, Pankaj Mishra, Robert Misik, Oliver Nachtwey, Donatella della Porta, César Rendueles, Wolfgang Streeck, Slavoj Žižek.Nous vivons un tournant historique.Non, nous n'avons pas assisté à la "fin de l'Histoire". Loin de marquer le début du règne d'une démocratie universelle et d...

A proposta de uma discussão internacional e plurieditorial vem responder aos questionamentos diante dos acontecimentos políticos recentes. A grande regressão: um debate internacional sobre os novos populismos – e como enfrentá-los, organizado por Heinrich Geiselberger, reúne contribuições de quinze autores consagrados, incluindo Zygmunt Bauman, Nancy Fraser, Bruno Latour e Slavoj Žižek, e um artigo inédito de Renato Janine Ribeiro. O começo do século XXI deixou claro: a globalização neolib...

The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on the other?Fear of Small Numbers is Arjun Appadurai’s answer to that question. ...

Technologie ist immer effektiv, der Zugang zu Informationen unbegrenzt, und Banken sind »too big to fail« – dieser Mythos des Kapitalismus ist so wirkmächtig wie falsch. Das Finanzsystem hat sich von seiner globalen, mit Steuern notdürftig gekitteten Krise nie erholt. Geld ist nichts mehr wert, unsere Abhängigkeit von Wall Street und Silicon Valley verstärkt sich, je schlechter das System funktioniert. Und in der Gig Economy von Uber bis Airbnb verschärft sich der Druck: Jeder Erfolg wird ...

En esta serie de ensayos sobre la violencia, la mercantilización, el nacionalismo, el terror y la materialidad, el autor ofrece un amplio enfoque analítico de nuestra condición global actual. Además que adopta la "política de la esperanza" y sienta las bases para una antropología del futuro, revitalizada y urgente.

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Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic of our times: globalization.Globalization has long been recognized as one of the crucial factors shaping the modern world – a force that allows goods, people, money, information and culture to flow across borders with relative ease. But if globalization is reshaping the world, ...

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, and (dis)connectivity. Moving between the planned obsolescence and deliberate precariousness of digital technologies and the “too big to fail” logic of the Great Recession, they argue that the sense of ...