How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness

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How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness

Matthew Fuller

(Lines)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

  • : hbk.

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内容説明

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes. How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won't enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake.

目次

preface acknowledgements 1. How to Sleep 2. Without Thinking 3. Dormant 4. I Don't Want to be Awake 5. The Domestic Architecture of the Skull 6. Heroes of Sleep 7. Too Much Dream 8. Mediating 8. Sleep Acts 9. Repulsive Sleep 10. Ingredients of Sleep 11. Sleep Gltiches 12. Body Parts 13. Be Unconscious 14. The Luxuriance of Dissolving 15. Free-Running 16. Sleep in Love 17. Vulnerable 18. Hyperpassivity 19. The Eye Busy Unseeing 20. How to Thrive Biologically 21. Repetition 22. Architecture 23. Laws Governing Sleep 24. Film Sleep 25. Man Controls the Day.But We Will Control the Night 26. Headless Brim 27. Trains and Buses 28. The Smell of Sleep 29. The Child's Bed 30. Brain as Labourer 31. Melnikov's Promethean Sleepers 32. Sleep on the Road 33. Terraforming 34. Dozy-looking 35. Nocturne 36. Waking Up 37. Equipment 38. Sleep Upright In Order to Avoid Death 39. Animal Sleep 40. Wrap Up Warm bibliography index

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