{"title":"Powering Down∗","authors":"J. Crary","doi":"10.1162/octo_a_00424","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The essay is a brief set of reflections by the author on his book 24/7 five years after its publication and on its possible continuing relevance for artists. It notes the worsening of what the book identified as features of the non-stop operations of global capitalism, including intensifying environmental devastation, widening economic inequality, the deathliness of billionaire culture, and the collapse of longstanding forms of social solidarity and mutual support.","PeriodicalId":51557,"journal":{"name":"OCTOBER","volume":"1 1","pages":"27-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"OCTOBER","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00424","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The essay is a brief set of reflections by the author on his book 24/7 five years after its publication and on its possible continuing relevance for artists. It notes the worsening of what the book identified as features of the non-stop operations of global capitalism, including intensifying environmental devastation, widening economic inequality, the deathliness of billionaire culture, and the collapse of longstanding forms of social solidarity and mutual support.
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At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today"s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.