{"product_id":"scorched-earth-4","title":"Scorched Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as one of \u003ci\u003eLitHub'\u003c\/i\u003es 38 Favorite Books of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 \u003ci\u003eBig Other\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. \u003ci\u003eScorched Earth\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24\/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be instruments of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57197546438991,"sku":"9781784784447","price":20.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781784784447_1-scorched-earth.jpg?v=1772973255","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/scorched-earth-4","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}