"A polemic as finely concentrated as a line of pure cocaine" - Los Angeles Review of Books
Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University and is a founding editor of Zone Books. His publications include Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception and 24/7.
The 24/7 phantasmagoria of digital exchange impresses the commodity
deep into the body's tissues, leaving only sleep as a partial
respite. Jonathan Crary updates Marcuse's One Dimensional Man with
a vigilant critique of the totality of the seemingly eternal
present of this pseudo-world.
*McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of
Disintegration*
Crary's polemic against the demands of 24/7 capitalism brilliantly
illuminates the devastating effects of our changed temporality.
Enjoined to constant productivity, we consume ourselves, our world,
and our capacity collectively to imagine a common future. This is a
crucial commentary on the format and tempo of contemporary
life.
*Jodi Dean, author of The Communist Horizon*
Crary updates Leninist understandings of the expansion of
capitalism in his phenomenal book 24/7, which is well worth a read
for a clear understanding of the role of time in the continued and
deepening exploitation of the working class under digital
capitalism.
*Marx & Philosophy Review of Books*
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