24/7. Late capitalism and goals of sleep. Crary J.

Jonathan Crary explores some of the destructive consequences of continuous and expanding processes characteristic of capitalism of the 21st century, when the market is constantly working in 24/7 mode, pushing us to constant activity and undermining many forms of social and political expression.

The author traces as an unstoppable does not erode the boundaries between the ubiquitous and unbridled consumers and the strategies of control and supervision that are currently emerging; Describes constant management of human attention and violation of perception in the framework of forced practices of modern technological culture. At the same time, he notes that human sleep, being a healing respite, in its essence incompatible with capitalism of 24/7, points to us other, more formidable and more collective ways of abandoning the world destroying the world of growth and accumulation.