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Fighting Sleep
The War for the Mind and the US Military
Buch von Franny Nudelman
Sprache: Englisch

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On 21 April, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, having fought the courts for the right to sleep in public as part of their week-long demonstration. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, veterans decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.

During and after WWII, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of traumatised soldiers who suffered from "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 weaponise both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms--nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia--and pioneered new methods of protest.

In Sleeping Soldiers, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the decades following WWII, arguing that the sleep of soldiers was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and anti-war 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 passive, empty, or null, is a site of contention and a source of political agency.
On 21 April, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, having fought the courts for the right to sleep in public as part of their week-long demonstration. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, veterans decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.

During and after WWII, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of traumatised soldiers who suffered from "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 weaponise both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms--nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia--and pioneered new methods of protest.

In Sleeping Soldiers, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the decades following WWII, arguing that the sleep of soldiers was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and anti-war 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 passive, empty, or null, is a site of contention and a source of political agency.
Über den Autor
Franny Nudelman
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781786637819
ISBN-10: 1786637812
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Nudelman, Franny
Hersteller: Verso Books
Maße: 216 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Franny Nudelman
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 115317185
Über den Autor
Franny Nudelman
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781786637819
ISBN-10: 1786637812
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Nudelman, Franny
Hersteller: Verso Books
Maße: 216 x 148 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Franny Nudelman
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 115317185
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