Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter w.5: United States Department Of Defense, Sleep Deprivation, Global Exchange
15 Mar 2018
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Johnathan crary 24/7: late capitalism and the ends of sleep. White crowned sparrow capacity for staying awake for 7 days. Us defence department study hope of querying knowledge applicable to human beings. Aim is to discover ways to enable people to go without sleep and to function productively and efficiently. Logic of the us military directed toward removing the living individual from many parts of the command control and execution circuit. Sleeplessness research quest for soldiers whose physical capabilities closely approximate the functionalities of non human appraises and networks. War related innovations are inevitably assimilated into a broader social sphere, the sleeves solider would be the forerunner of the sleepless worker or consumer. 24/7 markets and a global infrastructure for continues work and consumption have been in place for some time. Russian and european space consortium; company expanded its plans to include the possibility of supplying nighttime lighting for entire metropolitan areas: daylight all night long .
