Jonathan Crary - 24/7 - O Capitalismo Tardio e os Fins do Sono

The enormous portion of our lives that we lose sleeping remains one of the greatest human affronts to the voracity of contemporary capitalism.

Working and consuming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, seems to be the current watchword. In this unstoppable machine, incompatible with the dead and unproductive time of our sleep, we become sleepwalkers complicit in our own exhaustion. In "24/7," Jonathan Crary explores the origins and consequences of this state of eternal wakefulness, going from Guy Debord to Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, or Sigmund Freud, and traces a dizzying panorama of contemporaneity, in which sleep is the greatest affront to capitalism: an impediment to productivity, a bastion of humanity, the only frontier not conquered by the logic of the commodity. A controversial and fascinating essay, concise but comprehensive (from the Industrial Revolution to social media), "24/7" is the rediscovery of a safe place for consciousness and the construction of community.