24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
...the false communitarianism of social media. This brutal, every man for himself ethos intersects with the war on sleep in issues such as the way we deal with homelessness. Public spaces are now comprehensively planned to deter sleeping, often including–with an intrinsic cruelty–the serrated design of benches and other elevated surfaces that prevent a human body from reclining on them. The pervasive but social disregarded phenomenon of urban homele...