Scorched Earth
Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

This is as sharp a work of critical theory as I've read in some time. Crary doesn't really have a thesis he wants to prove, just a central concept he orbits around; namely that capitalism is re-orienting and demolishing our most basic conception of biological time cycles and that that re-ordering is......more

I first encountered Jonathan Crary in graduate school - his "Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century", an astonishingly read. The premise of 24/7 is compelling: sleep is the last barrier that capitalism faces in its quest to control all of human life. And today,......more

Simplistic application of a Marxist paradigm applied to a complex topic. No analysis of physiology or purposes of sleep. Asserts that capitalists want to end sleep because they can't sell it. He could have written this idea on the back of a postage stamp and saved himself some time, perhaps gotten......more

FODA!!!! Achei que esse livro fosse falar "só" do objetivo capitalista de acabar com o sono de uma vez por todas, acontece que esse "só" é muito mais profundo e complexo. Jonathan Crary explica, com linguagem acessível, como nossa sociedade caminha para um modelo de desumanização das nossas vidas. O......more

god we're so fucked......more