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

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Author / Creator:Fuller, Matthew, author.
Imprint:London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
©2018
Description:vii, 183 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lines
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11671851
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ISBN:9781474288705
1474288707
9781474288712
1474288715
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
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.
Other form:Electronic version: Fuller, Matthew. How to sleep. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781474288729

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