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Scorched Earth : Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World by Jonathan. Crary (2022, Hardcover)

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Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support.

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PublisherVerso Books

ISBN-101784784443

ISBN-139781784784447

eBay Product ID (ePID)2321442004

Product Key Features

Book TitleScorched Earth : Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicSociology / General, Future Studies, Utopias

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science

AuthorJonathan. Crary

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-287342

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Following on 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep , Jonathan Crary here confirms his position as our most ruthless critic of all that exists. With a hammer of critical theory, he smashes the golden calf around which our lives revolve: the very internet itself. His sentences come packed with urgent truths long felt but only now articulated with the force they deserve. His clear-sightedness is the gift of prophets." --Andreas Malm "At last a book about the urgency to find a way out from a system that has crossed a threshold of irreparability and toxicity. A book that is simultaneously desperate and refreshing." --Franco "Bifo" Berardi "A passionate denunciation of the destructive character of capitalist technology, built on evidence drawn from every corner of the world, Scorched Earth is a major contribution to the reclaiming of our radical imagination and the creation of a new internationalism." --Silvia Federici "Following on 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep , Jonathan Crary here confirms his position as our most ruthless critic of all that exists. With a hammer of critical theory, he smashes the golden calf around which our lives revolve: the very internet itself. His sentences come packed with urgent truths long felt but only now articulated with the force they deserve. His clear-sightedness is the gift of prophets." --Andreas Malm, Praise for 24/7 by Jonathan Crary: "A dark, brilliant book." - Michael Hardt, Artforum "A polemic as finely concentrated as a line of pure cocaine." - Los Angeles Review of Books " 24/7 is the capstone of Crary's archeology of the spectacle and arguably the most significant of the lot. It's informed by the erudition of one of the most thorough and original researchers on the planet." - PopMatters "A masterful exploration of the place of the human individual, their dreams and the future of the species in today's age of nonstop neoliberal capitalism and its multitude of manifestations." - CounterPunch "Jonathan Crary updates Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man with a vigilant critique of the totality of the seemingly eternal present." - McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of Disintegration " 24/7 cuts through a lot of the starry-eyed nonsense people talk about the empowering nature of new technologies and keeps in mind the whole time that, as far as late capitalism is concerned, we are nothing more than ultimately disposable units for keeping economies running ... Read this, and ponder its implications. I would even venture to suggest you sleep on it." - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "Crary's talent as a pamphleteer is unequaled..." - Corriere della Sera "Sleep is a standing affront to capitalism. That is the argument of Jonathan Crary's provocative and fascinating essay, which takes 24/7 as a spectral umbrella term for round-the-clock consumption and production in today's world. The human power nap is a macho response to what Crary notes is the alarming shrinkage of sleep in modernity. 'The average North American adult now sleeps approximately six and a half hours a night,' he observes, which is 'an erosion from eight hours a generation ago' and 'ten hours in the early twentieth century' ... A humane and bracingly splenetic counterblast, with a lot of interesting micro-theses along the way." - Steven Poole, New Statesman, "Following on 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep , Jonathan Crary here confirms his position as our most ruthless critic of all that exists. With a hammer of critical theory, he smashes the golden calf around which our lives revolve: the very internet itself. His sentences come packed with urgent truths long felt but only now articulated with the force they deserve. His clear-sightedness is the gift of prophets." --Andreas Malm "At last a book about the urgency to find a way out from a system that has crossed a threshold of irreparability and toxicity. A book that is simultaneously desperate and refreshing." --Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Dewey Decimal303.4833

SynopsisRefusing the digital world of late capitalism In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.

LC Classification NumberHM851