Sleep Sovereignty
Sleep is the last stretch of a life the market cannot easily harvest. The 24/7 economy, the wearable and the industrial clock have all gone after it anyway.
Tag: biopolitics
7 posts
The Boredom Strike
The attention economy doesn't want your attention. It wants your arousal. Boredom is the one state it can't sell, which makes it a labour tactic.
The Ghost in the City
A city redesigned so that pausing reads as a fault condition, and what that costs the people whose bodies need to stop.
The Gorgon Protocol
Facial recognition fails unevenly, and hardest on the people it was never built for. That failure is a vulnerability you can put on your face.
The Bio-Age Trap
Insurers are swapping your birthday for a biological age score. The markers it reads are gendered, so menopause gets priced as accelerated decay.
The Glass Cage
The demand that you be readable is the demand that you be governable. On legibility, the trap of visibility, and why opacity is the freedom left.
The Research Underneath the Film
Part 3: the twelve-essay corpus that sits under The Ungovernable Body, why a short film needed one, and where to start reading it.