Technosleep

Frontiers, Fictions, Futures
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-30598-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 296 g

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. 

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coveney, Catherine

Greaney, Michael

Williams, Simon J.

Hsu, Eric L.

Meadows, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. 

Über Autor(innen)

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.