24/7 - Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Zusatztext 45293709 Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception, Scorched Earth and Tricks of the Light . Klappentext An eye-opening examination of the thing we never seem to get enough of - sleep - and its relationship to work and capitalism, arguing that capitalism now dominates every hour of the day and night. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Crary, Crary Jonathan
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781781683101
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-310-1
• No. of pages: 133
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Consumerism