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How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover)
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How to Sleep - The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Hardcover)
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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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