Scorched Earth Quotes

“The truth is irrefutable: there are no revolutionary subjects on social media.”
― Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

“The internet complex quickly became an integral part of neoliberal austerity in its ongoing erosion of civil society and its replacement by monetized, online simulations of social relations. It fosters the belief that we no longer depend on each other, that we are autonomous administrators of our lives, that we can manage our friends in the same way we manage all our online accounts. It also heightens what social theorist Elena Pulcini calls the “narcissistic apathy” of individuals emptied of desire for community and who live in passive conformity with the existing social order.”
― Jonathan Crary, Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World