Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and Professor in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.

Kimberley Staines is Project Coordinator at Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and an employee of Durham University, UK, with a background in law and publishing.

James Wilkes is Associate Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK. He is a poet, writer and Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.

Presents new, interdisciplinary insights about rest and its opposites

Offers inspiration for other research projects

Includes accounts of how the contributors and editors have tracked and reflected on their work across disciplinary boundaries to investigate rest as an aesthetic, political, physiological and sociological phenomenon

Introduction; Felicity Callard, Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes.- Part I: MINDS.- 1. Altered states: resting state and default mode as psychopathology; Ben Alderson-Day and Felicity Callard.- 2. The quest for quies mentis; Hilary Powell.-3.Writing and daydreaming; Hazel Morrison.- 4. Daydream archive; Felicity Callard.- 5.Descriptive Experience Sampling as a psychological method; Charles Fernyhough and Ben Alderson-Day.- [...] Poetics of Descriptive Experience Sampling; Holly Pester and James Wilkes.- [...] Rest Test: preliminary findings from a large-scale international survey on rest; Claudia Hammond and Gemma Lewis.-Part II: BODIES.- 8. From therapeutic relaxation to mindfulness in the twentieth century; Ayesha Nathoo.- 9. So even the tree has its yolk; James Wilkes.- 10. Cartographies of rest: the spectral envelope of vigilance; Josh Berson.- 11. Getting the measure of the restless city; Des Fitzgerald.- 12. Drawing attention: ways of knowing derived in the movement of the pencil; Tamarin Norwood.- 13. Songs of rest: an intervention in the complex genre of the lullaby; Holly Peste.- 14. Could insomnia be relieved with a YouTube video? The relaxation and calm of ASMR; Giulia Poerio;.- 15. Relief from a certain kind of personhood in ASMR role-play videos; Emma Bennett.-Part III: PRACTICES.- 16. R-E-S-T and composition: silence, breath and aah ... [gap] musical rest; Antonia Barnett-McIntosh.- 17. Metrics of unrest: building social and technical networks for Heathrow noise;Christian Nold.- [...] is an experiment: capturing the everyday dynamics of collaboration in The Diary Room; Felicity Callard, Des Fitzgerald and Kimberley Staines.- 19. Greasing the wheels: invisible labour in interdisciplinary environments; Kimberley Staines and Harriet Martin.- [...] denied, rest reclaimed; Lynne Friedli and Nina Garthwaite.- 21. Laziness: A literary-historical perspective;Michael Greaney.-22. Day of restlessness; Patrick Coyle.