How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness / Matthew Fuller.
Fuller, Matthew, author.
2018
QP425 .F855 2018
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Title How to sleep : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness / Matthew Fuller.
Author Fuller, Matthew, author.
ISBN 9781474288705
9781474288729 (e-book)
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 183 pages).
Call Number QP425 .F855 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.821
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. Mediations 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
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How to sleep
Without thinking
Dormant
Alarm
I don't want to be awake
The domestic architecture of the skull
Heroes of sleep
Too much dream
Imperatives of the importance of diet
Mediating
Sleep acts
Repulsive sleep
Supination or pronation?
Ingredients of sleep
Sleep glitches
Body parts
Chemistry sex
Be unconscious
The luxuriance of dissolving
Free-running
Sleep in love
Vulnerable
Hyperpassivity
The eye busy unseeing
How to thrive biologically
Repetition
Architecture
Laws governing sleep
Film sleep
The man controls the day. But we will control the night
Headless brim
At the edge of sex
No tools left in this vehicle overnight
Unswept benches
Trains and buses
The smell of sleep
The child's bed
Brain as labourer
Melnikov's Promethean sleepers
Sleep debt
Sleep on the road
Terraforming
Nocturne
Dozy-looking
Licked surface
Waking up
Equipment
Sleep upright in order to avoid death
Go to Guildhall Museum and look at the clocks
Animal sleep
Wrap up warm.

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