Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a -juncture- in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception -- a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the -vision machine.- If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural -- and still consummate -- theorist of -dromology- (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of -picnolepsy- -- the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject...
Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a -juncture- in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto t...
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life. Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness...
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-centu...
