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Arjun Appadurai

is a professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a senior professor at the Hertie School in Berlin. He is an authority on cultural globalization, violence, cities, and media, with a special interest in South Asia. His books, Modernity at Large (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and The Future as Cultural Fact (London: Verso, 2013) have contributed ground-breaking ideas on the dynamics and effects of cultural globalization. His most recent book, co-authored with Neta Alexander, is Failure (London: Polity Press, 2019).
Other texts by Arjun Appadurai for DIAPHANES
  • politics
  • art theory
  • globalization
  • art
  • cosmopolitics