The Restless Compendium

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Felicity Callard, Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes

   Pages 1-7Open Access

3. Minds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Altered States: Resting State and Default Mode as Psychopathology

      • Ben Alderson-Day, Felicity Callard

      Pages 11-17Open Access

   3. The Quest for quies mentis

      • Hilary Powell

      Pages 19-26Open Access

   4. Writing and Daydreaming

      • Hazel Morrison

      Pages 27-34Open Access

   5. Daydream Archive

      • Felicity Callard

      Pages 35-41Open Access

   6. Descriptive Experience Sampling as a Psychological Method

      • Charles Fernyhough, Ben Alderson-Day

      Pages 43-50Open Access

   7. The Poetics of Descriptive Experience Sampling

      • H. Pester, James Wilkes

      Pages 51-57Open Access

   8. The Rest Test: Preliminary Findings from a Large-Scale International Survey on Rest

      • C. Hammond, G. Lewis

      Pages 59-67Open Access

4. Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. From Therapeutic Relaxation to Mindfulness in the Twentieth Century

      • A. Nathoo

      Pages 71-80Open Access

   3. So Even the Tree has its Yolk

      • James Wilkes

      Pages 81-89Open Access

   4. Cartographies of Rest: The Spectral Envelope of Vigilance

      • J. Berson

      Pages 91-98Open Access

   5. Getting the Measure of the Restless City

      • Des Fitzgerald

      Pages 99-104Open Access

   6. Drawing Attention: Ways of Knowing Derived in the Movement of the Pencil

      • Tamarin Norwood

      Pages 105-111Open Access

   7. Songs of Rest: An Intervention in the Complex Genre of the Lullaby

      • H. Pester

      Pages 113-118Open Access

   8. Could Insomnia Be Relieved with a YouTube Video? The Relaxation and Calm of ASMR

      • G. Poerio

      Pages 119-128Open Access

   9. Relief from a Certain Kind of Personhood in ASMR Role-Play Videos

      • E. Bennett

      Pages 129-136Open Access

5. Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering, through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new connections across apparently distinct phenomena.

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

• busyness
• calm
• wellbeing
• activity
• performance
• sociology
• life sciences
• relaxation
• therapeutic relaxation
• history
• song
• music
• urban space
• bodies
• mind

“This book … enables its readers to encounter or assemble a rich and compelling collage of rest as a multifaceted and many-threaded phenomenon, which may suggest new questions and modes of research. For those involved in or interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, the book serves as a open document of how a large interdisciplinary collaboration might be held together, both through the strategies of restlessness and openness, and through its reflexivity.” (Dr. Sarah Klein, Centre for Medical Humanities Durham University, centreformedicalhumanities.org, November, 2017)

• Durham University , Durham, United Kingdom

  Felicity Callard

• Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

  Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes

Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and Professor in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.

Kimberley Staines is Project Coordinator at Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and an employee of Durham University, UK, with a background in law and publishing.

James Wilkes is Associate Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK. He is a poet, writer and Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.