Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 184 pages)
Ausgabe:
2014
ISBN:
9781474288743
,
9781474288736
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9781474288729
Serie:
Lines
Inhalt:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9781474288712
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ISBN 9781474288705
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fuller, Matthew How to sleep London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 1474288707
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781474288705
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Unterbewusstsein
;
Schlaf
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Psychologie
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Schlaf
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474288743
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474288743
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