Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures

Description

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.  Preface Acknowledgements Praise for Technosleep Contents About the Authors List of Figures List of Boxes 1 Introduction: Technosleep—Frontiers, Fictions, Futures Starting Points: On Sleep and Technology Conceptualising Technosleep Theorising Technosleep Researching Technosleep Outlining Technosleep Notes References 2 Contextualizing Sleep Sleep Has Many Histories Sleep Has Many (Unequal) Presents Sleep Has Become a Matter of Concern Sleep Became (Un)knowable Sleep Is a Site and Source of Entanglement Conclusions—Towards Technosleep References 3 Tracking Sleep The Quantified Sleeper: Sleep as a Technologically Mediated Reality Making Sleep Visible: Sleep as Dataobject Acting On and With Sleep Data Algorithmic Injustices? Normativity and Exclusion Big Sleep Data: A Life of Its Own? Conclusions Notes References 4 Transforming Sleep? Light and Sleep Masks and Machines Pharmaceuticals and Sleep Sleeping Pills Wakefulness Promoting Drugs New Drugs in Development Sleep and Dream Engineering (Bio) Hacking Sleep? Techno Transformations of the Places and Spaces We Sleep Conclusions Notes References 5 Machinic ‘Sleep’ Can Technology Sleep? Sleeping Technologies as Actants The Differences Between Human and Technological Sleep The Problem of Essentialism Interfacing Human and Technological Sleep Through the Prism of Metaphor The Ethical Dimensions of Technological Sleep Conclusions Notes References 6 Technosleep in/as Science Fiction Technologizing Sleep The Vulnerability of Sleep The Limits of Sleep Sleep Regained Conclusions References 7 Stratified Technosleep Futures Sociology of ‘The Future’ Technosleep Imaginaries Technoscientific Imaginaries Posthuman Imaginaries Inequalities and Inequities Conclusions: The Future of Technosleep Futures? Notes References 8 Conclusions: Technosleep, Frontiers, Fictions and Futures Frontiers… Fictions… Futures… Concluding Comments References Index