Jonathan Crary e os limites de uma utopia pós-mídia

This article, written in the style of a critical essay and theoretical exegesis, aims to dissect the central arguments of Jonathan Crary in Scorched Earth, highlighting their limitations and extracting some of their implications and consequences. Two core issues will be brought to the forefront: first, the contemporary subject described as a kind of sleepwalker—numbed, imprisoned, on the verge of awakening—; and second, life in the digital age understood as a process of uprooting from the world and human relationships through technical devices, routinization processes, the spectacle, and the instrumentalization of perception (of the human eye, voice, and face as sources for reading and generating data).