Insomnia
The Politics of Sleep in Contemporary Capitalism
- Editore:
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
- EAN:
9781350002760
- ISBN:
1350002763
- Pagine:
- 208
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Libro Insomnia di Alexei Penzin
Trama libro
Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of production, exchange, consumption, communication and control. A form of enforced insomnia which keeps people subservient and compliant. This makes sleep a revolutionary act. Insomnia ranges from the history of philosophy to contemporary 'sleep science' and cutting edge theory to provide us with a powerful philosophical and aesthetic intervention - that charts not just the problems of sleep but its revolutionary potential as a new politics of sleep. This is urgent reading for anyone trying to sleep in contemporary capitalism.
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