Insomnia

Alexei Penzin

Buch

The Politics of Sleep in Contemporary Capitalism

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Publisher:: Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic, 03/2027
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781350002760
Item number:: 11715646
Volume:: 208 Pages
Weight:: 454 g
Format:: 216 x 138 mm
Thickness:: 25 mm
Release date:: 4.3.2027
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Blurb

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.

Insomniaranges 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.