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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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

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