{"product_id":"247-late-capitalism-and-the-ends-of-sleep-9781804298404","title":"24\/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A fascinating short book\" on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e24\/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Crary\u003c\/b\u003e is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include \u003ci\u003eTechniques of the Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuspensions of Perception\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298530918674,"sku":"9781804298404","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74683737-01a5-4e0f-8fed-332f1e8bc062.jpg?v=1747825951","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/247-late-capitalism-and-the-ends-of-sleep-9781804298404","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}