24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

By Jonathan Crary. 2013

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Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device (2015, background): “Crary (2013) argues that ‘there are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time’ (p. 15).”
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data (2015, unknown): “This article argues a small piece of a much larger process, demonstrating how the data created through daily smart device use is commodified through processes of accumulation by dispossession and how, in turn, this occurs through the ongoing colonization of life by capital (Crary, 2014).”
Securing with algorithms: Knowledge, decision, sovereignty (2017, background): “This representation of data as synchronic, or ‘real time’, notwithstanding its illusory and fragile nature (Crary, 2013), brings with it the imagination of a horizon of security in which the detection of new events can reject traditional statistical risk criteria and embrace emergent futures…”
How we think: digital media and contemporary technogenesis (2014, background): “More recently, Crary (2013) sees the rapid rhythm of technological consumption leaving no time for adaptation and the imme-diacy and in ﬁ nity of post-scarcity culture diminishing ‘ human-scale communication or exploration of ideas ’ (p. 60).”