How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness
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How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness
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Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
- : hbk.
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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