24/7

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 16 19:52:18 CDT 2013


Learn some resonances to Late Capitalism, I suggest. 

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On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Crary, Jonathan.  24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep.
>   London and New York: Verso, 2013.
> 
> ",,, as writers from Ernest Mandel to Thomas Pynchon have shown, World
> War II, in its destructiveness and global impact, was an unprecedented
> event of homogenization in which outdated territories, identities, and
> social fabrics were obliterated.  It was the making, wherever
> possible, of a tabula rasa that would become the platform for the
> latest phase in the globalization of capitalism. World War II was the
> crucible in which new paradigms of communication, information, and
> control were forged, and in which connections between scientific
> research, transnational corporations, and military power were
> consolidated." (p. 67)
> 
> http://www.versobooks.com/books/1429-24-7
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dLPU_AiSMgoC&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false



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