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.
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ISBN
9781474288736
Publisert
2020
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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