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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Jonathan Crary
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Description for 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Paperback. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 164.
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.
Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness and the impairment of perception within the compulsory routines of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he shows ... Read more
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.
Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness and the impairment of perception within the compulsory routines of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he shows ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781683101
SKU
V9781781683101
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About Jonathan Crary
Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University and is a founding editor of Zone Books. His publications include Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception and 24/7.
Reviews for 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The 24/7 phantasmagoria of digital exchange impresses the commodity deep into the body's tissues, leaving only sleep as a partial respite. Jonathan Crary updates Marcuse's One Dimensional Man with a vigilant critique of the totality of the seemingly eternal present of this pseudo-world.
McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of Disintegration Crary's polemic against the demands of 24/7 capitalism ... Read more
McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of Disintegration Crary's polemic against the demands of 24/7 capitalism ... Read more