Scorched Earth - Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022
Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction

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.

About the author

Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include Techniques of the Observer and Suspensions of Perception.

Report

At last a book about the urgency to find a way out from a system that has crossed a threshold of irreparability and toxicity. A book that is simultaneously desperate and refreshing. Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Crary, Crary Jonathan
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2022
• EAN: 9781784784447
• ISBN: 978-1-78478-444-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Globalization, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Consumerism, Environmentalist thought and ideology