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I Can’t Sleep

Lionel Ruffel

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English
Sternberg Press
22 February 2022
An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.

An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin.

""This book could have been called The Contemporary Condition of Sleeping and Reading in the Heart of (and in Spite of) the Logosphere and Various Media Streams, but frankly, I Can't Sleep sounds better, plus it's true.""-Lionel Ruffel

The diaristic form of I Can't Sleep is an attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, making reference to Jonathan Crary, Bernard Stiegler, Yves Citton, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and above all Walter Benjamin. Written in a style that borrows not from classical forms of theory or prose, but operates in between fiction and nonfiction to investigate the very concept of the contemporary, I Can't Sleep uses a quite old but often renewed method-in this sense a very contemporary one-consisting of starting from one's own personal situation.
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Imprint:   Sternberg Press
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 191mm,  Width: 121mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   71g
ISBN:   9783956796036
ISBN 10:   3956796039
Series:   Sternberg Press / The Contemporary Condition
Pages:   56
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lionel Ruffel is a literary scholar, publisher, and author. Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Paris 8, he is the founding director of the creative writing program there. His recent projects include organizing (together with artist Kader Attia) ""Theory Now"" at La Colonie (Paris), ""The Publishing Sphere"" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and ""Radio Brouhaha"" at Centre Pompidou (Paris). He is the author of four monographs- Le Denouement, Volodine post-exotique, Brouhaha- Worlds of the Contemporary, Trompe-la-mort.

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