Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso, 2013), 72.
Tessa Love, “An MIT Lab Is Building Devices to Hack Your Dreams,” OneZero April 13, 2020 →.
Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (Temple University Press, 1989), 16.
Sleep Work is included in Heintz’s upcoming exhibition “Night Shift” at Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France, March 14–May 10, 2026 →.
Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press, 2020).
Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019).
Johanna Hedva, “Sick Woman Theory” →. Quoted in Neta Alexander, Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies (Duke University Press, 2025), 118.
Alexander, Interface Frictions, 138.
Alexander, Interface Frictions, 148.
“P. Staff and Jamieson Webster—After On Blue,” July 29, 2025, posted January 8, 2026, by Aspen Art Museum, Vimeo →.
On practices of refusing oneself, see Tung-Hui Hu, Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from An Age of Disconnection (MIT Press, 2022).
Jacques Rancière, “Preface to New English Edition,” Proletarian Nights: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (Verso, 2012), ix.
Matthew Fuller, How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Bloomsbury, 2018), 115.
José Esteban Muñoz, “The Sense of Watching Tony Sleep,” South Atlantic Quarterly 106, no. 3 (2007): 543.
Paul Sermon, “Telematic Dreaming – Statement,” paulsermon.org →.
Jean Ma, At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (University of California Press, 2022), 20.
Danielle Wong, “Sleepy Asians,” Representations 168, no. 1 (2024).
Plan C, “We Are All Very Anxious,” weareplanc.org, April 4, 2014 →.
Caleb Murray-Bozeman, “The Frustrated Promise of Online Porn,” Porn Studies 11, no. 2 (2024): 171.
Luke Winkie, “The Twitch Streamers Who Put People To Sleep (Literally),” Kotaku, July 12, 2019 →.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. Constance Garnett (Simon & Schuster, 2010), 670.
Rancière, Nights of Labor, 19.
Sara Marcus, Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2023).
Humphrey Jennings, Spare Time (film) (General Post Office Film Unit, 1939).
I also think of the use of “after” in Joshua Chambers-Letson, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (NYU Press, 2018).
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (Hill & Wang, 1978), 39.
AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (Duke University Press, 2018), 9.
Simone, Improvised Lives, 10.
