I Can't Sleep - Lionel Ruffel

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.

MIT Press, 2022
English
Softcover 56 pages
119mm x 180mm