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Late Capitalism And The Ends Of Sleep

by Jonathan Crary
language: english
Publisher: VERSO BOOKS, May of 2025 ‧
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“A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine)

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 that human sleep, as a restorative withdrawal that is intrinsically incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, points to other more formidable and collective refusals of world-destroying patterns of growth and accumulation.

24/7

Late Capitalism And The Ends Of Sleep

by Jonathan Crary

Property Description
ISBN: 9781804298404
Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
Release Date: May of 2025
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 8 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 144
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9781804298404

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jonathan Crary

Jonathan Crary is an art critic and professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University in New York. An unavoidable reference in visual culture thought, with a critical and refined discourse, Crary reflects on the role of the human gaze, the attention and perception of the spectator and consumer, in the consolidation of the capitalist economy. Among his works, the following stand out: Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (1999), Scorched Earth (Antigone, 2023) and Observer Techniques (2017, Black Orpheus), a work that proposes that shaping one's vision is essential for normalizing the observer. Crary is also the editor of Zone Books and writes regularly for publications such as Octobera Cahiers du Cinéma and the Artforum.

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