Internet Archive (Internet Archive)· 2013
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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Short summary
Late capitalism's 24/7 operational model erodes community and political expression by demanding constant activity, blurring consumerism with control and surveillance.
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Key points
- Late capitalism operates 24/7, demanding constant activity.
- This non-stop model erodes community and political expression.
- It blurs consumerism with control and surveillance.
- Sleep is presented as a withdrawal incompatible with this system and a potential site of refusal.
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Abstract
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.
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