Technosleep
Frontiers, Fictions, Futures
Published on 27. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXI, 201 pages
978-3-031-30598-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making - in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the 'coming together' or 'entanglements' of sleep and technology and sensitizes us to various shifts in sleep-technology relations through culture, time and place. In doing so, it pays close attention to the salience and significance of these trends and transformations to date in everyday/night life, their implications for sleep inequalities and the related issues of sleep and social justice they suggest.
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Edition
1st ed. 2023
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 2 farbige Abbildungen
XXI, 201 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-30598-6 (9783031305986)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-30599-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
06/2023
Palgrave Macmillan
€37.44
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Persons
Catherine Coveney is a senior lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK.
Michael Greaney is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Eric L. Hsu is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Australia.
Robert Meadows is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Surrey University.
Simon J. Williams is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Michael Greaney is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Eric L. Hsu is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Australia.
Robert Meadows is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Surrey University.
Simon J. Williams is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Content
Introduction: Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures.- Contextualising sleep.- Tracking sleep.- Transforming sleep?.- Machinic 'sleep'.- Technosleep in/as science fiction.- Stratified technosleep futures.- Conclusions: Technosleep, frontiers, fictions and futures.