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Fighting Sleep

- The War for the Mind and the US Military
Af: Franny Nudelman Engelsk Hardback

Fighting Sleep

- The War for the Mind and the US Military
Af: Franny Nudelman Engelsk Hardback
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On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.<br><br> During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam War era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms—nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia—and pioneered new methods of protest.<br><br> In <i>Fighting Sleep</i>, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that sleep was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and antiwar activism. Traversing the fields of military and mainstream psychiatry, popular and institutional film, documentary sound technology, brain warfare, and postwar social movements, she demonstrates that sleep—far from being passive, empty, or null—is a site of contention and a source of political agency.
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On April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.<br><br> During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam War era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms—nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia—and pioneered new methods of protest.<br><br> In <i>Fighting Sleep</i>, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that sleep was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and antiwar activism. Traversing the fields of military and mainstream psychiatry, popular and institutional film, documentary sound technology, brain warfare, and postwar social movements, she demonstrates that sleep—far from being passive, empty, or null—is a site of contention and a source of political agency.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9781786637819
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1786637812
Udg. Dato: 8 okt 2019
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 142mm
Højde: 217mm
Forlag: Verso Books
Oplagsdato: 8 okt 2019
Forfatter(e): Franny Nudelman
Forfatter(e) Franny Nudelman


Kategori Søvnbesvær og terapi


ISBN-13 9781786637819


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 160


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 142mm


Højde 217mm


Udg. Dato 8 okt 2019


Oplagsdato 8 okt 2019


Forlag Verso Books

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