Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
By: Jonathan Crary
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digit…
Want to Read $ 7.99"The internet complex quickly became an integral part of neoliberal austerity in its ongoing erosion of civil society and its replacement by monetized, online simulations of social relations. It fosters the belief that we no longer depend on each other, that we are autonomous administrators of our lives, that we can manage our friends in the same way we manage all our online accounts. It also heightens what social theorist Elena Pulcini calls the “narcissistic apathy"-Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
"The internet complex quickly became an integral part of neoliberal austerity in its ongoing erosion of civil society and its replacement by monetized, online simulations of social relations. It fosters the belief that we no longer depend on each other, that we are autonomous administrators of our lives, that we can manage our friends in the same way we manage all our online accounts. It also heightens what social theorist Elena Pulcini calls the “narcissistic apathy"-Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
"The internet complex quickly became an integral part of neoliberal austerity in its ongoing erosion of civil society and its replacement by monetized, online simulations of social relations. It fosters the belief that we no longer depend on each other, that we are autonomous administrators of our lives, that we can manage our friends in the same way we manage all our online accounts. It also heightens what social theorist Elena Pulcini calls the “narcissistic apathy"-Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
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15. Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
By: Jonathan Crary
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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