H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2025

SCRAPS · writing the Sleep CRisis: 24/7 cAPitalism and neoliberal Subjectivity

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2025-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 257 210 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Културните изяви в литературата и дигиталното пространство разглеждат съвременната криза на съня и нарастващата изтощеност. Това помага да се разбере как ритъмът на работа, капитализмът и климатичните промени влияят върху начина, по който живеем и почиваме.

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Резултати накратко

writing the Sleep CRisis: 24/7 cAPitalism and neoliberal Subjectivity

Sleep has increasingly become a matter of public health concern in the twenty-first century. In what some experts define as a sleep crisis, we supposedly sleep one to two hours less than our ancestors and sleep disorders are on the rise. This research project is the first to explore contemporary cultural engagements (fiction, non-fiction, digital culture) with this crisis. For while not all experts agree that we are in the grip of this sleep-related public health emergency, depictions of contemporary society as chronically sleep deprived and exhausted are widespread. The project seeks to understand why the sleep crisis has gained so much traction in contemporary culture. It also explores what the stories we tell about sleep reveal about the way we live today. Arguably, the discourse of the sleep crisis voices anxieties about contemporary life, from the nature of twenty-first-century capitalism and the rhythms of work, to the affective impacts of the climate crisis. Culture highlights the political nature of sleep. Contrary to popular understandings, sleep isn’t a retreat from the world but is intertwined with the society where the sleeper sleeps, or fails to. In addition to these research objectives, the Fellowship also sought to accelerate the professional development of the PI (Principal Investigator).

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Sleep is in crisis in the twenty-first-century Global North. People fail to sleep the eight hours recommended by the WHO and sleep disorders are on the rise. A medical humanities intersection of literary/cultural studies with critical theory, philosophy of technology, and STS, SCRAPS is the first study to investigate cultural engagements with this public health issue. I consider twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction, non-fiction (memoirs and self-help manuals), and digital culture (mHealth apps and sleep hygiene blogs) to advance our understanding of the impact of neoliberal ideologies on health.The focus on cultural production serves to interrogate the crisis’s affective dimension. Through theoretically informed close readings, I explore the affects and concerns about contemporary life mobilised by the discourse of a sleep crisis and what these reveal about the relationship between individual health and neoliberal ideologies. My aim is to articulate a new theory of the affects (such as insomnia, exhaustion, burnout, and anxiety) produced by the neoliberal temporal regimes and forms of subjectivity that arguably underlie the sleep crisis.In addition to proposing a timely scholarly intervention, SCRAPS seeks to accelerate my professional development as an interdisciplinary researcher. At META, POLIMI’s innovative network of Social Sciences and Humanities for Science and Technology, I will receive training in new methodologies from philosophy of technology and STS necessary to carry out SCRAPS’s analysis of digital culture. I will also develop my profile through an ambitious programme of dissemination. A monograph, three research articles, a field-defining conference, and an edited special issue of conference proceedings will engage interdisciplinary academic audiences. An art exhibition, articles in the media, and a website will engage the wider public. Two workshops with medical and mental health professionals will create pathways to inform medical practice.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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