The Restless Compendium

The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.

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. - 6. The Poetics of Descriptive Experience Sampling; Holly Pester and James Wilkes. - 7. The 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. - 18. This 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. - 20. Rest denied, rest reclaimed; Lynne Friedli and Nina Garthwaite. - 21. Laziness: A literary-historical perspective; Michael Greaney. -22. Day of restlessness; Patrick Coyle.