{"product_id":"how-to-sleep-matthew-fuller-9781474288705","title":"How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003eSleep 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. \u003ci\u003eHow to Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArguing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Fuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474288707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474288705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Matthew Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079128510719,"sku":"9781474288705","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29095901-a8dd-4b62-ab95-3db4a2eb6756.jpg?v=1685479458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-sleep-matthew-fuller-9781474288705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}