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

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The writer Emma Bennett first heard ‘ASMR’ (autonomous sensory meridian response) mentioned during interdisciplinary conversations about lullabies and the politics of work and rest while at Hubbub. After Googling the practice, Emma began watching Olivia’s Kissper ASMR to aid sleep and to indulge a long-held susceptibility to ‘tingles’. Here, Emma asks: Could this spectatorial practice aimed at attaining a dreamy, sleepy passivity be reframed as an active research practice? And, might this counterintuitive move raise productive theoretical questions about activity and passivity, questions that open on to the ethics of rest and its opposites?

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Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Bennett, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1928-9794
Editors:	Callard, F Staines, K Wilkes, J
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	(c) 2016, The Author(s). This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license and any changes made are indicated. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material.
Keywords:	Address; Apostrophe; Autonomous sensory meridian response; Body Performance; YouTube
Dates:	Published: 20 September 2016 Published (online): 20 September 2016 Accepted: 6 April 2016
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2019 11:11
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2019 11:11
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Identification Number:	10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7_16
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147455

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