Martyn
@martynpedler.com
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Writer, academic, brain in a jar. Creative Writing PhD in superhero stories. You can see my stuff at martynpedler.com
Writer, academic, brain in a jar. Creative Writing PhD in superhero stories. You can see my stuff at martynpedler.com
![Most of the seemingly irreducible necessities of human life-hunger, thirst, sexual desire, and recently the need for friendship-have been remade into commodified and financialized forms. Sleep poses the idea of a human need and interval of time that cannot be colonized and harnessed to a massive engine of profitability, and thus remains an incongruous anomaly and site of crisis in the global present[...] The stunning, inconceivable reality is that nothing of value can be extracted from it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66jwks2nthrs2usdf2l4p3nd/bafkreiayqrelfhi4kn6qmzy2u2h2hwotdndl5wm5wuejtlxubu54nlkj54)
