**An attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with
references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and
Walter Benjamin.
**
"This book could have been called The Contemporary Condition of
Sleeping and Reading in the Heart of (and in Spite of) the Logosphere
and Various Media Streams, but frankly, I Can't Sleep sounds better,
plus it's true."--Lionel Ruffel
The diaristic form of I Can't Sleep is an attempt to feel and
investigate the quality of time, making reference to Jonathan Crary,
Bernard Stiegler, Yves Citton, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and
above all Walter Benjamin. Written in a style that borrows not from
classical forms of theory or prose, but operates in between fiction and
nonfiction to investigate the very concept of the contemporary, I Can't
Sleep uses a quite old but often renewed method--in this sense a very
contemporary one--consisting of starting from one's own personal
situation.