{"product_id":"scorched-earth-by-jonathan-crary-9781784784447","title":"Scorched Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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 financialisation of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScorched Earth\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003e24\/7\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849951203564,"sku":"9781784784447","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12459303482823.jpg?v=1759066080","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/scorched-earth-by-jonathan-crary-9781784784447","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}