Hello, welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

My name is Keir Milben and I'm joined by my very good friend Nadia Eidl, and my other very

good friend Jeremy Gilbert.

Hello, and today, as the night's drawing, as the days get shorter, we're going to tackle

the very cozy, oooh, topic of sleep.

Nadia, this is your idea, isn't it?

This is a great idea, I think, to sleep as a topic.

But why did you want to talk about it?

I guess I'm interested in sleep because it's something we spend a quarter to a third of

our lives doing, and it's inextricably linked to our short and long-term physical and mental

health, and it's something that every human being does and needs.

But we don't seem to be spending enough time talking about it as a subject.

So I guess I want to politicize sleep and understand its relationship with early capitalism

and late capitalism, where we're living now, and yeah, I'm politicize it.

So I want to discover through doing this episode what the progressive anti-capitalist position

on sleep is, and is sleep a natural obstacle to capitalist value expansion, I think it probably

is, and it also just provides a sleep, provides us with an interesting lens through which to

talk about capitalism and capitalism's discourses and needs and dynamics in general.

But also, I think we can explore sleep's relationship to work more specifically, but also leisure,

and maybe how those things have changed over time in Britain, or as much as evidence we

can find out about that.

Specifically, I'd like to explore this crazy statistic that we came across that 7.5 million

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