How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness / Matthew Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Matthew, author.

Series:

Lines (Bloomsbury (Firm))

Lines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sleep.

Sleeping customs.

Subconsciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 183 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474288743

147428874X

9781474288729

1474288723

OCLC:

1030002200