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“Self-fashioning is the work we are all given, and we dutifully comply with the prescription continually to reinvent ourselves and manage our intricate identities. As Zygmunt Bauman has intimated, we may not grasp that to decline this endless work is not an option.”

Work Capitalism Labor Self Fashioning

Book:24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“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” of individuals emptied of desire for community and who live in passive conformity with the existing social order.”

Loneliness Internet

Book:Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Source: Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

“How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?”

Subjectivity Interface Interface Design Socio Technological

Book:Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

“24/7 is a time of indifference, against which the fragility of human life is increasingly inadequate and within which sleep has no necessity or inevitability. In relation to labor, it renders plausible, even normal, the idea of working without pause, without limits.”

Work Sleep Labor

Book:24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”

Book:24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“In related ways, 24/7 is inseparable from environmental catastrophe in its declaration of permanent expenditure, of endless wastefulness for its sustenance, in its terminal disruption of the cycles and seasons on which ecological integrity depends.”

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Book:24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.”

Sleep Capitalism Torture Academic Epistemology

Book:24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Source: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

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