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Scorched Earth Beyond the Digital Age to a Post Capitalist World 1st Edition by Jonathan Crary ISBN 9781784784447 1784784443

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Author(s): Jonathan Crary

ISBN(s): 9781784784447, 1784784443

Edition: 1

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1784784443
ISBN 13: 9781784784447
Author: Jonathan Crary

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism 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.

Scorched Earth Beyond the Digital Age to a Post Capitalist World 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – A Historical and Critical Survey of the “Internet Complex”
- Traces the internet’s development from military origins to commercial dominance.
- Critiques how it integrates into everyday life, fostering neoliberal labor, addiction, loneliness, indebtedness, and corrosion of social bonds
Chapter 2 – Techno‑Capitalism in Its Fully Digital Phase
- Examines how digital platforms and the Internet of Things (AI, 5 G, algorithms, etc.) have transformed social and economic life into a 24/7 digital work environment.
- Highlights the erosion of agency, the deepening of extraction, social privatization, ecological damage, and the narrowing of political possibilities
Chapter 3 – Toward a Post‑Capitalist World: Disconnection and Subsistence Practices
- Explores the rise of biometric surveillance (eye‑tracking, face and iris recognition).
- Advocates collective refusal, reconnection with subsistence techniques rooted in indigenous and Global South knowledges, and the pursuit of non‑digital life forms