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  • Scorched Earth

    Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

    Refusing the digital world of late capitalismIn 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 24/7

    Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    “A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine)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. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tricks of the Light

    Essays on Art and Spectacle

    Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual cultureTricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary's responses to modern and contemporary art and to the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    Scorched Earth

    Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

    Narrated by Gareth Richards ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    Refusing the digital world of late capitalismIn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

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  • Toward A Minor Architecture

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