How to sleep : : the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness / / Matthew Fuller.
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 phenome...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lines (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 183 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.