Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century,” he wrote caustically, “was the invention of the method of invention.” Science defined itself, not by principles but through results.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
book Profiles of the Future.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Arthur C. Clarke, by the late 1950s, was an early incarnation of the public “futurologist,”
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
the take-off of post-war consumer society required a decisive delinking of the future from any imagination of transformed social relations.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
absence of any substantive or credible promises of a better future.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
the system will hit its physical limits. Whatever we end up with at that point, it will not be a system of infinite expansion.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
“capitalism as an engine of infinite expansion and accumulation cannot, by definition, continue in a finite world.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Capitalism approaches its exhaustion when human productivity is not just augmented by technology but replaced by it.