Alexei Penzin

Insomnia

The Politics of Sleep in Contemporary Capitalism
Herausgeber: Fuller, Matthew; Goffey, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350002753
• ISBN-10: 1350002755
• Artikelnr.: 69673538

Autorenporträt

Alexei Penzin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction. "I used to say I had troubles sleeping, then
I realized I had more troubles with wakefulness" Chapter 1. A Symptomatic
Exclusion of Sleep in Philosophy 1.1. A Critique of Oneiro-centricism and a
New Space for Research 1.2. Isolation and Potentiality: Two Primary Models
1.3. Descartes: Sleep, Madness and Sceptical Argument 1.4. ".Life could not
maintain itself for an instant": Sleep and Dream in Kant 1.5. Hegel: Sleep,
Subjectivity and the Absolute 1.6. Freud: ".essentially a problem of
physiology." Chapter 2. Sleep and Subjectivity 2.1. The "Ontological
Meaning of Sleep" (Lévinas) 2.2. The Singularity of the Sleeper in Some
(Uncommon) Examples of Contemporary Thought 2.3. Sleep, Wakefulness and
Vigilance Chapter 3. Rex Exsomnis: A Political Theology of Sleep and
Vigilance 3.1. "The Great Awakening" 3.2. A Vigilance Complex in
Philosophy? 3.3. Non-Sleeping Sovereign (Rex Exsomnis) 3.4 ".sans (t)rêve
et sans merci": Sleep and Awakening in Walter Benjamin's Writings Chapter
4. Sleep in Capitalist Modernity 4.1. The Question of Sleep in Das Kapital
and the Concept of the "Natural Barrier" in the Grundrisse 4.2.
Non-Sleeping Society 4.3. The Limit of the Social 4.4. Cultures of Sleep
and Industries of Night Chapter 5. (An)aesthetics of Sleep 5.1. "Sleeping
Beauty": A Political Theology in Fairy Tale 5.2. Sleeping Sonata: Art of
Sleep Under Communism 5.3. "Is the Worker Asleep?" From Warhol to
Contemporary Art 5.4. Sleep as the Possibility of Artwork Conclusion.
Vigilance of Being Itself? An Ontological Hypothesis Bibliography Index