{"product_id":"scorched-earth-1","title":"Scorched Earth","description":"\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Selected as one of \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;LitHub'\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;s 38 Favorite Books of 2022\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Finalist for the 2022 \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Big Other\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; Book Award for Nonfiction\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 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. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Scorched Earth\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313276985726,"sku":"NW9781784784447","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784784447.jpg?v=1778516557","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/scorched-earth-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}