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HOW TO SLEEP THE ART BIOLOGY AND CULTURE OF UNC...

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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