Networked Quotes by Jonathan Crary

“There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over…

— Jonathan Crary

“According to the Tiqqun collective, we have become the innocuous, pliable inhabitants of global urban societies.7 Even in the absence of any direct compulsion,…

— Jonathan Crary

“Of course, no individual can ever be shopping, gaming, working, blogging, downloading, or texting 24/7. However, since no moment, place, or situation now exists…

— Jonathan Crary

“Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support…

— Jonathan Crary

“Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.”

— Jonathan Crary

“How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way…

— Jonathan Crary

“An attention economy dissolves the separation between the personal and professional, between entertainment and information, all overridden by a compulsory functionality of communication that…

— Jonathan Crary

“In many different ways, the attack on values of collectivity and cooperation is articulated through the notion that freedom is to be free of…

— Jonathan Crary