Crary, Jonathan, author.

24/7 : late capitalism and the ends of sleep / Jonathan Crary.

London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
©2014

133 pages ; 20 cm

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.-- Publisher description.

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Art and society.
Time and art.
Capitalism Social aspects.
Civilization, Modern 21st century.
Sleep.
Time.
Art.
Capitalism
Art et société.
Temps et art.
Civilisation 21e siècle.
Sommeil.
Temps.
time.
Society.
Civilization, Modern
Spätkapitalismus
Informationsgesellschaft
Zeit
Kommerzialisierung

Twenty-four seven
Late capitalism and the ends of sleep

Location: Library main 298351
Call No.: BIB 244623
Status: Available