{"product_id":"9781784784447-scorched-earth","title":"Scorched Earth","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World\u003cbr\u003eRefusing the digital world of late capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected as one of \u003ci\u003eLitHub'\u003c\/i\u003es 38 Favorite Books of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 \u003ci\u003eBig Other\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 financialization 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. This polemic by the author of 24\/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be instruments 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39921171005537,"sku":"9781784784447","price":9.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33024147.jpg?v=1760384061","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784784447-scorched-earth","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}