late capitalism
description: Ideas concerning the potential end of capitalism
143 results
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
by Jonathan Crary · 3 Jun 2013 · 102pp · 33,345 words
24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep Jonathan Crary for Suzanne Or else we make a scarecrow of the day, Loose ends and jumble of our common
Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
by Deborah Hargreaves · 29 Nov 2018 · 98pp · 27,201 words
up in 2012. Dysfunctional pay structures and the gulf between income for those at the top and the rest are not the inevitable products of late-stage capitalism. They are the outcome of choices made by governments and company boards about markets, incentives, tax rates and regulation. In many ways, they are also
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seen as an expression of frustration by those ‘left behind’ by the current economic structure and moves towards greater globalization. It is worth asking how late-stage capitalism in the West has created the conditions that hand so many benefits to the ‘few’: those at the top of the income scale and the
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
’t have any proof, but I believe hacking has become more common in recent decades because of this dynamic. It’s my personal explanation of “late-stage capitalism” and all the problems it brings: finding loopholes in the rules is now regularly the path of least resistance. When those with means or technical
Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online
by Fortesa Latifi · 7 Apr 2026 · 240pp · 89,773 words
precarious and increasingly unreachable for all but the wealthiest among us, is it any wonder Americans are taking their turn playing the viral lottery? In late-stage capitalism, where everything is a commodity, including you and your child, there’s a part of me that understands trading privacy for economic stability. In an
Virtual Light
by William Gibson · 1 Jan 1993 · 365pp · 94,464 words
that?" "He wrecked his knee. Warbaby wrecks his knee, can't drive, you wind up here. Think about it. What does that tell you about late-stage capitalism?" "Tell me about what?" "Don't they teach you anything in that police academy?" "Sure," Rydell said, "lots of stuff." Thinking: how to talk to
The Passenger
by AA.VV. · 23 May 2022 · 192pp · 59,615 words
the experiences of people of Indigenous, Asian, Latino, and mixed descent fail to reflect the world we live in. Yet far too often critiques of late-stage capitalism don’t address how people of color get pitted against each other. Alexandra Chang’s novel, Days of Distraction (Ecco, 2020), skillfully portrays the mental
Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker · 29 Nov 2015
is not an exception to the claim that most should work, since the idle rich are always a minority.) This leads to the contradiction of late-stage capitalism. To understand the contradiction, we need to recall from chapter 5 the relationship between “ought” and “can” statements: “ought” implies “can.” The point was made
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that threatens the perennial Malibu surfer is badly mistaken. Perennial surfers ought to be celebrated as heroes of the nation. Without them, the contradiction of late-stage capitalism is only exacerbated. The Future of Capitalism The argument for BIG offered here seems to have hitched its fortunes to that of capitalism. In chapter
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?most_recent_value_desc=true. As Cory Doctorow wrote: Cory Doctorow, “The People’s Republic of Walmart: How Late-Stage Capitalism Gives Way to Early-Stage Fully Automated Luxury Communism,” BoingBoing, March 5, 2019, https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html. Walmart executives
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols · 25 Sep 2017 · 391pp · 71,600 words
a sagging line below Gini’s perfect 45-degree angle that represents growing inequality. I want to avoid the pitfalls of what Marx described as late-stage capitalism—a theoretical time when economic growth and profits collapse—and get back to the returns enjoyed in early stage capitalism. But how? That’s the
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes · 1 Jun 2021 · 342pp · 114,118 words
America’s purpose in the world above the methodical expansion of global markets, allowing America to become tethered to the dislocations and inequality produced by late-stage capitalism. Our embrace of a global War on Terror created a basis for leaders like Putin to securitize their own grip on power, while the invasion
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Valley become perfect tools of surveillance in Xinjiang. Along the way, the ideological conflicts of the last century were being subsumed by a blend of late-stage capitalism, older nationalism, and China’s newer techno-authoritarianism. The only permanence was in the landscape around us and the human beings who moved within it
Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia
by Adrian Shirk · 15 Mar 2022 · 358pp · 118,810 words
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
Meantime: The Brilliant 'Unputdownable Crime Novel' From Frankie Boyle
by Frankie Boyle · 20 Jul 2022 · 286pp · 86,480 words
The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now
by Sergey Young · 23 Aug 2021 · 326pp · 88,968 words
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by Ben Mezrich · 6 Nov 2023 · 279pp · 85,453 words
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by Jennifer Pahlka · 12 Jun 2023 · 288pp · 96,204 words
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow · 6 Oct 2025 · 313pp · 94,415 words
How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by Ben Smith · 2 May 2023
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
The Insatiable Machine
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean · 9 Nov 2012
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres
by Jamie Woodcock · 20 Nov 2016
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
In the Flow
by Boris Groys · 16 Feb 2016 · 230pp · 60,050 words
The New Prophets of Capital
by Nicole Aschoff · 10 Mar 2015 · 128pp · 38,187 words
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
by Paul Collier · 4 Dec 2018 · 310pp · 85,995 words
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
by Wendy Brown · 6 Feb 2015
We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
by John Cheney-Lippold · 1 May 2017 · 420pp · 100,811 words
The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences
by Rob Kitchin · 25 Aug 2014
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
by Andrew Ballantyne · 19 Dec 2002 · 162pp · 42,595 words
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
by Michael Brooks · 23 Apr 2020 · 88pp · 26,706 words
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words
No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
by James Livingston · 15 Feb 2016 · 90pp · 27,452 words
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement
by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky · 11 Jun 2012 · 537pp · 99,778 words
Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words
Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
by Benjamin Barber · 20 Apr 2010 · 454pp · 139,350 words
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
by Jonathan Tepper · 20 Nov 2018 · 417pp · 97,577 words
Autonomia: Post-Political Politics 2007
by Sylvere Lotringer, Christian Marazzi · 2 Aug 2005
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
by Arlie Russell Hochschild · 1 Nov 1983
The Social Life of Money
by Nigel Dodd · 14 May 2014 · 700pp · 201,953 words
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2012 · 206pp · 9,776 words
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer
by Nicholas Shaxson · 10 Oct 2018 · 482pp · 149,351 words
When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World – and Why We Need Them
by Philip Collins · 4 Oct 2017 · 475pp · 156,046 words
City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
by Catie Marron · 11 Apr 2016 · 195pp · 58,462 words
Explore Everything
by Bradley Garrett · 7 Oct 2013 · 273pp · 76,786 words
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Brett Chistophers · 25 Apr 2023 · 404pp · 106,233 words
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey · 2 Jan 1995 · 318pp · 85,824 words
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
by William Davies · 28 Sep 2020 · 210pp · 65,833 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Wolfgang Streeck · 1 Jan 2013 · 353pp · 81,436 words
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen · 14 Jan 2021 · 297pp · 88,890 words
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
Collaborative Futures
by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv · 24 Aug 2010 · 188pp · 9,226 words
The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society
by Charles Handy · 12 Mar 2015 · 164pp · 57,068 words
What’s Your Type?
by Merve Emre · 16 Aug 2018 · 384pp · 112,971 words
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
by Lasse Heje Pedersen · 12 Apr 2015 · 504pp · 139,137 words
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin · 1 Dec 2009 · 415pp · 119,277 words
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words
eBoys
by Randall E. Stross · 30 Oct 2008 · 381pp · 112,674 words
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
by Brett Christophers · 12 Mar 2024 · 557pp · 154,324 words
SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis
by James. Davies · 15 Nov 2021 · 307pp · 88,085 words
Hacking Capitalism
by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 19 Aug 2012
Protocol: how control exists after decentralization
by Alexander R. Galloway · 1 Apr 2004 · 287pp · 86,919 words
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
by Ruth Kinna · 31 Jul 2019 · 405pp · 103,723 words
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety
by Dalton Conley · 27 Dec 2008 · 204pp · 67,922 words
Culture works: the political economy of culture
by Richard Maxwell · 15 Jan 2001 · 268pp · 112,708 words
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
by Marc Levinson · 31 Jul 2016 · 409pp · 118,448 words
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
by Alissa Quart · 25 Jun 2018 · 320pp · 90,526 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
by Benjamin Kunkel · 11 Mar 2014 · 142pp · 45,733 words
Bureaucracy
by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 15 Jan 2012 · 632pp · 166,729 words
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino · 5 Aug 2019 · 305pp · 101,743 words
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
by Fintan O'Toole · 5 Mar 2020 · 385pp · 121,550 words
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay · 14 Jul 2020 · 378pp · 107,957 words
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words
The Cultural Logic of Computation
by David Golumbia · 31 Mar 2009 · 268pp · 109,447 words
The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
by Jason Kelly · 10 Sep 2012 · 274pp · 81,008 words
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss · 5 Aug 2024 · 493pp · 120,793 words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
by Amanda Montell · 14 Jun 2021 · 244pp · 73,700 words
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
by Brett Christophers · 6 Nov 2018
Uncharted: How to Map the Future
by Margaret Heffernan · 20 Feb 2020 · 335pp · 97,468 words
Antarctica
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 6 Jul 1987 · 607pp · 185,228 words
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming · 14 Jun 2015 · 320pp · 86,372 words
The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard · 15 Mar 2006
Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
by Laurence Scott · 11 Jul 2018 · 244pp · 81,334 words
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
by Ian Kershaw · 29 Aug 2018 · 736pp · 233,366 words
Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani · 20 Feb 2024 · 262pp · 69,328 words
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
by Oliver Morton · 26 Sep 2015 · 469pp · 142,230 words
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
by Adam Greenfield · 14 Sep 2006 · 229pp · 68,426 words
Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City
by Tony Roshan Samara · 12 Jun 2011 · 252pp · 13,581 words
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 22 May 2012 · 561pp · 167,631 words
Emergence
by Steven Johnson · 329pp · 88,954 words
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake · 11 May 2020
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
by Rachel Hewitt · 6 Jul 2011 · 595pp · 162,258 words
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by Edwin Frank · 19 Nov 2024 · 467pp · 168,546 words
Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse
by Thomas Chatterton Williams · 4 Aug 2025 · 242pp · 76,315 words
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
by Emily Guendelsberger · 15 Jul 2019 · 382pp · 114,537 words
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
by Gary Greenberg · 1 May 2013 · 480pp · 138,041 words
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 1 Mar 2001 · 493pp · 172,533 words
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
by Olivia Laing · 1 Mar 2016 · 265pp · 83,677 words