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  1. 1. Power Nap: Visualising sleep and neoliberal governmentality

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Författare :Eilidh Urquhart; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Neoliberalism; sleep; governmentality; reality TV; quantified self; self-tracking; biopolitics; time; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how representations of sleep and sleeplessness in mass culture can be reflective of shifts in the constitution of time and self-image driven by neoliberal capitalism, using Shattered, a reality TV show and Sleep Cycle, a self-tracking app, as points of analysis. The first part of the thesis introduces various discourses around sleep, optimisation and productivity that exist in present day late capitalism, and authors and theorists who have studied them. LÄS MER