24/7 : Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

by Crary, Jonathan

Consumerism

Published 13/05/2025 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 144 pages

The bestselling and internationally translated book 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.