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Nie spać, czuwać, konsumować
Do not sleep, watch, consume

Author(s): Weronika Korzeniecka
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: time; late capitalism; the world of eternal activity; consumption control

Summary/Abstract: The text is a book review of Jonathan Crary 24/7. Late capitalism and the end of the dream. It includes comments relating to the major issues described in the essay – the existence of the 24/7 system and ways of its development and improvement. The main axis of the text is the subject of continuous audit of an entity living in a world of eternal activity, deprived of time for sleeping, sometimes blurring the boundary between private and professional time, who is dependent on consumption and involved in the creation of his virtual profile.

  • Issue Year: 5/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-149
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish