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

Jonathan Crary
3.86/5 (366 ratings)
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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 financialisation 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 an instrument 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.
Format:
Pages:
144 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Verso Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1784784443
ISBN13:
9781784784447
kindle Asin:
B0998PWQXN

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

Jonathan Crary
3.86/5 (366 ratings)
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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 financialisation 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 an instrument 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.
Format:
Pages:
144 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Verso Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1784784443
ISBN13:
9781784784447
kindle Asin:
B0998PWQXN

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