The project’s latest book chapter, “Sleep Mode: Phones, Achievement-Subjects and the Sleep Crisis in Contemporary Literature”, has been published in Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), edited by Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, and Annabel Williams.
In the chapter, Diletta De Cristofaro traces the presence of phones in a selection of contemporary literary texts featuring troubled sleepers and offers a framework to understand the pervasive cultural representations of contemporary society as suffering from poor sleep. The book is open access and you can read it here.