The Restless Compendium : Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites.

Intro -- The Restless Compendium -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Minds -- 2 Altered States: Resting State and Default Mode as Psychopathology -- Notes -- 3 The Quest for quies mentis -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 4 Writing and Daydreaming -- Multiplicity of the Self and the Fragility of Self-Representation -- Creativity, Self and Sublimation: 'The Mark on the Wall' -- Fragmentation -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 5 Daydream Archive -- Rummaging Through the Archive -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 6 Descriptive Experience Sampling as a Psychological Method -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 7 The Poetics of Descriptive Experience Sampling -- Further Reading -- 8 The Rest Test: Preliminary Findings from a Large-Scale International Survey on Rest -- What Is Rest and How Do People like to Do It? -- How Does the Modern World of Work Aff ect Our Ability to Rest? -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Part II Bodies -- 9 From Therapeutic Relaxation to Mindfulness in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- 10 So Even the Tree has its Yolk -- Afterword -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 11 Cartographies of Rest: The Spectral Envelope of Vigilance -- Vigilance -- 'Near Sensing' and a Perspectival View of Urban Space -- Notes -- 12 Getting the Measure of the Restless City -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 13 Drawing Attention: Ways of Knowing Derived in the Movement of the Pencil -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 14 Songs of Rest: An Intervention in the Complex Genre of the Lullaby -- Note -- Further Reading -- 15 Could Insomnia Be Relieved with a YouTube Video? The Relaxation and Calm of ASMR -- The Unexplained Feeling: What Is ASMR ? -- The Rise of ASMR -- The Science of ASMR -- Tasting Words: Is ASMR a Synaesthetic Experience? -- People Find it Hard to Believe Things That They Do Not Experience -- Notes.

Further Resources -- 16 Relief from a Certain Kind of Personhood in ASMR Role-Play Videos -- Notes -- Part III Practices -- 17 R-E-S-T and Composition: Silence, Breath and aah . . . [Gap] Musical Rest -- Intro -- Compositional Process (and Themes of Rest) -- Breath: A Solo Alto Flute Piece -- None sitting resting: A Piece for String Quartet -- Outro -- Notes -- 18 Metrics of Unrest: Building Social and Technical Networks for Heathrow Noise -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 19 This Is an Experiment: Capturing the Everyday Dynamics of Collaboration in The Diary Room -- Notes -- 20 Greasing the Wheels: Invisible Labour in Interdisciplinary Environments -- The Participating Non-Academic -- Institutional Rhythms and Arrhythmias -- Performing Research and the Visibility of Labour -- What Now? -- Further reading -- 21 Rest Denied, Rest Reclaimed -- Notes -- Further Resources -- 22 Laziness: A Literary-Historical Perspective -- Notes -- Further Reading -- 23 Day of Restlessness -- Further Reading -- 24 Erratum to: "The Restless Compendium" -- Index.

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