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When Thinking Stops: Philosophy and Sleep in Capitalist Modernity

When Thinking Stops: Philosophy and Sleep in Capitalist Modernity

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Series: Lines

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

PREORDER - Expected ship date August 5, 2027

ISBN10: 1350002763
ISBN13: 9781350002760
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Aug 5 2027
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

Insomnia ranges 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.

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