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24/7 examina las devastadoras consecuencias de los procesos productivos del capitalismo del siglo XXI sobre la capacidad de atención del individuo y la sociedad. Hoy, cuando tanto los procesos de producción como los sistemas de consumo disponen de los recursos para mantenerse operando las 24 horas del día, los 7 de la semana, la sociedad padece las consecuencias de un mercado cuyo perpetuo sentido de optimización amenaza con robarle el sueño a los hombres, y con ello, su capacidad de imaginar una realidad diferente. Jonathan Crary analiza la manera en que la fractura entre los ciclos naturales de noche y día, vigilia y sueño, trastorna la nuestra capacidad para diferenciar entre unas condiciones de vida privilegiada y las estrategias de control y vigilancia implementadas por las formas de poder dominantes.

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

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Stunning translations of images from the internet and the artist’s iPhone to canvas, Luc Tuymans’s quiet paintings belie an underlying moral complexity. Once Tuymans''s muted compositions felt fatalistic; now they appear as committed assaults on our digital fragmentation and the lies that thrive in its cracks. —Jason Farago, The New York Times One of the most important painters working today, Luc Tuymans pioneered a distinctive figurative style beginning in the 1980s that has proven singularly influential among his peers as well as subsequent generations of artists. Tuymans’s deeply resonant compositions insist on the power of images to simultaneously convey and conceal meaning. Rendered in a restrained and muted palette, the artist’s canvases are based on preexisting imagery from a range of historical, cultural, and popular media sources. This monograph of recent work reveals how Tuymans’s paintings grasp t

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Suspensiones de la percepción analiza la naturaleza paradójica de la atención en la cultura moderna, en tanto ha constituido tanto una condición fundamental de la libertad individual, la creatividad y la experiencia, cuanto un elemento central para el funcionamiento eficiente de las instituciones y de la economía. El autor sostiene que nuestra manera de contemplar y escuchar al otro es el resultado de un cambio crucial que se produjo en la naturaleza de la percepción en la segunda mitad del siglo diecinueve.

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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 and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness and the impairment of perception within the compulsory routines of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he shows that human sleep, as a restorative withdrawal that is intrinsically incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, points to other more formidable and collective refusals of world-destroying patterns of growth and accumulation.

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