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.
Table of Content
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.
About the author
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.
