{"product_id":"scorched-earth-jonathan-crary-9781784784447","title":"Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World","description":"\u003cb\u003eRefusing the digital world of late capitalism \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eScorched Earth\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis polemic by the author of \u003ci\u003e24\/7\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Crary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784784443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784784447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.81w x 0.61d","brand":"Jonathan Crary","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043460378879,"sku":"9781784784447","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a5ea3e84-6240-4a53-946f-9079e8e07286.jpg?v=1684967282","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scorched-earth-jonathan-crary-9781784784447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}