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    24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    By Jonathan Crary

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerso US
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781781684764
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      There is a thesis statement early in the book that provides all the insight you can expect to glean from it: “Sleep is an irrational and intolerable affirmation that there might be limits to the compatibility of living beings with the allegedly irresistible forces of modernisation.” Beyond that, expect the pointless name-dropping of philosophers and classic literature, passages of florid metaphor that do not actually say anything interesting, and spurious claims about the future. I gave up milking meaning from this stone about halfway through.