24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep explores some of the disastrous consequences of the expanding, ceaseless processes of 21st-century capitalism. Markets now operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, pushing us into a state of constant activity, eroding forms of community and political expression, and destroying the structure of everyday life.

Jonathan Crary examines how these endless processes blur any distinction between the ever-present consumerism and the emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the methods of managing individual attention and the weakening of perception within the compulsive routines of modern technological culture.

At the same time, he demonstrates that sleep, as a restorative withdrawal that is inherently incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, reveals other, more dangerous and collective rejections of the models of economic growth and accumulation that are destroying the world.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]