Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is professor emeritus of media, culture, and communication at New York University. He is the author of The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger, The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition, and Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance.