Ziad Shihab

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Notes on the Rituals of Insomniacs

September 7th, 2023

A brief excerpt from Marie Darrieussecq’s memoir "Sleepless," a restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia. Image source: Jp Valery, via Unsplash Plagued by insomnia for 20 years, in her book "Sleepless," Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. "Insomniac mornings are dead mornings," she observes. Pre...

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead - Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

March 25th, 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTSI’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media July 2-7, 2023 in MontrealDEADLINE March 31, 2023CORERISC: the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk, and The Sociability of Sleep seek participants for a week-long writing workshop (July 2-7, 2023) centered on sleep in 21st century horror media. We aim to explore how horror media–from films to television to social media–responds to the conditions of sleep as a site of embodied risk today....

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I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

March 16th, 2023

updated:  Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:39pm full name / name of organization:  CORERISC / The Sociability of Sleep contact email:  corerisc@gmail.com categories (up to 5):  cultural studies and historical approaches film and television interdisciplinary science and culture deadline for ...

Story idea from Dream Log - 17 Aug 2000

May 26th, 2022

Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...

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Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

February 9th, 2022

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time.  Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...