Scorched Earth cover art

Scorched Earth

Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Scorched Earth

By: Jonathan Crary
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

Refusing the digital world of late capitalism

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. Scorched Earth 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 an instrument 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.

©2022 Jonathan Crary (P)2022 Tantor
Future Studies Politics & Government Social Sciences Capitalism Socialism Military

Listeners also enjoyed...

Change the Story, Change the Future cover art
The Revolt Against Humanity cover art
BetweenBrains cover art
Future Histories cover art
The Infinite Desire for Growth cover art
Anti-Oculus cover art
Internet for the People cover art
Postcapitalist Desire cover art
Motor Spirit: The Long Hunt for the Zodiac cover art
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom cover art
Manifesto for a European Renaissance cover art
The Gates of Europe cover art
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism cover art
The Will to Change cover art
Ghosts of My Life cover art
How the West Brought War to Ukraine cover art
No reviews yet