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.
Author(s): Catherine Coveney, Michael Greaney, Eric L. Hsu, Robert Meadows, Simon J. Williams
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 215
City: London
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
