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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This
interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest
and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws
together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists,
activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge
assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and
practices. Rest's presence or absence affects everyone.
Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and
what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic
and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and
experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions
ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering,
through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and
creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to
experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic
vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of
enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new
connections across apparently distinct phenomena. The book will be
of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines
in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This
interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest
and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws
together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists,
activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge
assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and
practices. Rest's presence or absence affects everyone.
Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and
what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic
and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and
experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions
ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering,
through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and
creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to
experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic
vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of
enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new
connections across apparently distinct phenomena. The book will be
of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines
in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.
Bodypopping Belgians and bicycle couriers populate a world of
public fountains and archaeological debris in this original and
eclectic collection by James Wilkes. Weather A System includes
poems, found text, scripts, ephemera and imaginary reviews;
subversive broadcasts that cut through the 'civil drizzle' of
contemporary life. Wilkes' work excavates the present, looting and
salvaging to craft an innovative, playful and multi-dimensional
poetics. Weather A System captures shifts of weather, power and
fashion: an energetic and darkly witty intervention in an eroded
culture.
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