Jonathan Crary

Capitalism’s colonization of every hour in the day 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

Refusing 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.

Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Scorched Earth

How we can refuse the world created by digital 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.

A historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture, this book argues that the ways in which we look at or listen to anything result from changes in the nature of perception that originated in the 19th century.

Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

Suspensions of Perception

A disponibilidade para consumir, trabalhar, compartilhar, responder, 24 horas por dia, 7 dias por semana, parece ser a tônica da contemporaneidade. Jonathan Crary faz um panorama vertiginoso de um mundo cuja lógica não se prende mais a limites de tempo e espaço. Uma sociedade que funciona sob uma ordem que põe à prova até mesmo a necessidade de repouso do ser humano – a última fronteira ainda não ultrapassada pela ação do mercado. No entanto, o capitalismo já se movimenta no sentido de se apoderar dessa esfera da vida: é o caso, por exemplo, das pesquisas científicas que buscam a fórmula para criar o "homem sem sono". Embora o sono não possa ser completamente eliminado, pode ser profundamente atingido. Estudos sobre formas mais eficazes de tortura e sobre a criação de um estado de vigilância mais duradouro, que eram inicialmente restritos ao campo das técnicas militares, hoje visam atingir também trabalhadores e consumidores. Passando por referências como Godard, Deleuze, Aristóteles, Arendt e inúmeras outras, o livro ressalta ainda a importância do universo onírico, ameaçado pelas visões atuais que "tratam o sonho como um mero ajuste autorregulatório da sobrecarga sensorial da vigília". 24/7 – capitalismo tardio e os fins do sono é uma instigante e perturbadora análise da realidade contemporânea.

24/7: Capitalismo tardio e os fins do sono

“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.

Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

24/7

dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity

On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Techniques of the Observer

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 financialization 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 instruments 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.

24/7. Późny kapitalizm i koniec snu

24/7 examina las devastadoras consecuencias de los procesos productivos del capitalismo del siglo XXI sobre la capacidad de atención del individuo y la sociedad. Hoy, cuando tanto los procesos de producción como los sistemas de consumo disponen de los recursos para mantenerse operando las 24 horas del día, los 7 de la semana, la sociedad padece las consecuencias de un mercado cuyo perpetuo sentido de optimización amenaza con robarle el sueño a los hombres, y con ello, su capacidad de imaginar una realidad diferente. El autor analiza la manera en que la fractura entre los ciclos naturales de noche y día, vigilia y sueño, trastorna nuestra capacidad para diferenciar entre unas condiciones de vida privilegiada y las estrategias de control y vigilancia implementadas por las formas de poder dominantes.

el capitalismo al asalto del sueño

24-7

24/7. Il capitalismo all'assalto del sonno

Bruce Jenkins

Kerry Brougher

Kate Linker

Hall of Mirrors (World of Art)

Art and Film since 1945

Stephen Jay Gould

David Quammen

Alexis Rockman

At the intersection of science and art, documentary and fantasy, the beautiful and the grotesque lies the work of Alexis Rockman, whose meticulously rendered paintings fascinate, amuse, and alarm -- often simultaneously -- as they explore the relationship between humanity and nature. A native New Yorker who frequented the American Museum of Natural History as a boy, Rockman is inspired by botanical and zoological illustrations, as well as early-twentieth-century murals and dioramas. Yet his work goes beyond those genres to portray, with dark humor, a variety of mutated and mutant animals (such as square cows and featherless chickens), interspecies couplings, and macabre visions of a future world. This richly illustrated volume is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of Rockman's oeuvre, from his early works, such as the fascinating yet disquieting Aviary, in which birds perch against a blood-red sky, to his more recent Expedition series, inspired by the artist's field studies in the rain forests of Brazil and Guyana. Important large-scale works, such as A Recent History of the World and Evolution, are reproduced as dramatic fold-out pages. Complementing the visual documentation of Rockman's work is commentary by the artist himself. Three incisive essays further elucidate the scientific and artistic influences on Rockman's art and show how, at the same time, he has broken with those traditions to create a unique, powerful, and at times haunting vision of the collision between humankind and the natural world.

visión y modernidad en el siglo XIX

Las técnicas del observador

Capitalism’s colonization of every hour in the day. 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

Sanford Kwinter

Incorporations was a good mix of essays from a range of authors. It provided interesting perspectives of Postmodern thoughts and culture but also incorporated some ideas from the modern as well.

Jonathan Crary

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