Sleep is a standing affront to capitalism

8/5/2013

A review of Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep.

Ben Reiss

8/13/2013 12:16:15 pm

This review is right on the money. Crary's book is all of these things: humane, splenetic, portentous. I felt it overstated the degree to which we're all screwed and underestimated the creativity that can be unleashed by the wired world. But mostly I think it's brilliant. I couldn't help thinking about my own tacit compromises to the 24/7 world, and about what I sacrifice when I plug in rather than sit quietly and contemplate.

Sleep is a standing affront to capitalism

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