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Technosleep
Frontiers, Fictions, Futures
Coveney, Catherine/Greaney, Michael/Hsu, Eric L et al
ISBN/EAN: 9783031305986
Umbreit-Nr.: 8836830
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xxi, 201 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 2 farbige Illustr., 2
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 27.06.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- A critical exploration of the changing norms and forms of sleep in technosocial timesConsiders the ways in which sleep is being measured, commodified and hacked by technologyA timely look at the future - or futures - of sleep through the lens of science, technology and culture
- Autorenportrait
- 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.