Jonathan Crary explores some of the destructive consequences of the continuous and expanding processes that characterize twenty-first-century capitalism, in which the market operates incessantly 24/7 mode, pushing us into constant activity and undermining many forms of social and political expression. The author traces how unstoppable non-time blurs the boundaries between ubiquitous and unrestrained consumerism and the emerging strategies of control and surveillance; he describes the constant management of human attention and the disruption of perception within the coercive practices of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he notes that human sleep, as a salutary respite that is inherently incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, points us to other, more threatening and more collective ways of rejecting the world-destroying models of growth and accumulation.