Sleep is the New Sex
A project examining the lived experience and representation of sleep as it relates to work, rest, gender, and sexuality.
Sleep is the New Sex: The Podcast Season Two has launched! Join hosts Cressida Heyes and Joshua Ayer for conversation about the cultural politics of sleep. Find us on Apple or direct from the source at sleepisthenewsex.ca.
Image credits: photo by Avi Avion from the installation Black Power Naps by artists Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa; a group of sperm whales sleep upright underwater; Tracy Emin’s 1998 installation My Bed.
Dr. Cressida J. Heyes holds an H.M. Tory Chair and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada
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Pre-prints or PDFs of many of my publications can be found here, as well as information about where to buy my books.
Anaesthetics of Existence
Essays on Experience at the Edge
Winner of the 2020 David Easton Book Award
“Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's “anaesthetics of existence” describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life—but should be brought back in.
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My research interests centre around political theory and ethics related to outer space travel and exploration.